I quit my job today

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Pjmm wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:26 am
Anonymous 1 wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:17 am
LiveWhatULove wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:14 am

I do not believe that hospitals "all over the place" are encouraging healthcare workers to go into patient's rooms with symptoms with no PPE. I refuse to believe this. Something is off with your account of events. I know hospitals in my area are not operating like this at all.

I hope you are not ill as well.
In the US at least. You can find a lot of information on it if you want. Join a few hospital groups if you want. It is all over the place.

There is a PPE shortage in the places that have been dealing with this and have a lot of cases.

You can pretend like it's not happening but it doesn't change facts. Anyone with Internet can find out how had things are getting.
Right but what I find hard to believe is the hospital said no handmade masks. We all know healthcare workers are making handmade masks because of a shortage. If I God forbid get sick my nurse could wear my sons plague doctor outfit for all I care. I'm sure most patients feel the same and if they don't a simple explanation should satisfy most.
The issue with the homemade masks is they are not medical grade they're not going to stop any germs from transferring between you and another patient.
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And this is why after making a dozen masks, I'm not sure that I want to donate them to the intended hospital.

I don't want them going to waste. I'm hoping that the production of N95 masks meets the demand required to fight this thing. But right now, I believe there is a shortage. And If I'm a doctor or nurse who is coming into contact with patients who may have his virus, I'd rather a handmade mask than no mask at all.

I'm continuing with my production of masks. By Sunday, I will have 48. Eventually, I'll learn whether or not my efforts were in vain.

mcginnisc wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:43 am People here have been asking about making masks and donating them to our local hospital. Nurses from that hospital responded and stated that the hospital system ( one of the largest in the state) is not allowing any hand made masks at any location. It sucks because as of yesterday, there were almost 1400 cases confirmed, almost 450 hospitalized and 47 deaths. I'm sure that number has changed since yesterday, but they won't update until about 11 am or so.

LiveWhatULove wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:24 am
Anonymous 1 wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:17 am
In the US at least. You can find a lot of information on it if you want. Join a few hospital groups if you want. It is all over the place.

There is a PPE shortage in the places that have been dealing with this and have a lot of cases.

You can pretend like it's not happening but it doesn't change facts. Anyone with Internet can find out how had things are getting.
I work in academia which is part of a hospital system. I am employed in a suburban hospital system & will be working this week-end. I know the internet likes to exaggerate facts to gain sympathy, and even people that quit their jobs, like to feel validated that doing so was worth it, so our personal stories carry bias to justify our reactions.

Are some facilities short of PPE? sure. But I do not believe that majority of facilities are denying workers the ability to wear home-made masks for patient satisfaction reasons. I do not believe that majority of facilities are just allowing all employees to have unlimited contact between rooms with patient with severe respiratory symptoms. There are two sides to every story and Facebook groups share one...So we can just agree to disagree.
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I haven't seen this pattern yet. But the pattern that I'm using...the nurses are using OVER the N95 masks...as a means to extend the life of the N95 mask.
Anonymous 4 wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:05 am This may not help but I saw some homemade masks that are double sided with a slit that a hospital mask can be put into the slit. Let me see if I can find it again

Here is the pinterest link to make them
https://pin.it/28YT7Ik
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Anonymous 5 wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:30 am
Pjmm wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:26 am
Anonymous 1 wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:17 am
In the US at least. You can find a lot of information on it if you want. Join a few hospital groups if you want. It is all over the place.

There is a PPE shortage in the places that have been dealing with this and have a lot of cases.

You can pretend like it's not happening but it doesn't change facts. Anyone with Internet can find out how had things are getting.
Right but what I find hard to believe is the hospital said no handmade masks. We all know healthcare workers are making handmade masks because of a shortage. If I God forbid get sick my nurse could wear my sons plague doctor outfit for all I care. I'm sure most patients feel the same and if they don't a simple explanation should satisfy most.
The issue with the homemade masks is they are not medical grade they're not going to stop any germs from transferring between you and another patient.
Surgical masks do the same thing. So does reusing N95 masks

I'm not risking my own health by not having any protection at all.
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