Once they hit the hospital it’s a shitshow. My unit doesn’t deal with much covid, because we have so many immunosuppressed patients.
But since I am also a dialysis Nurse (as an aside, my hospital prefers to do in house training for dialysis, rather than contract out as most, not all hospitals do)
So when I do deal with it it’s usually one on one in a room for four hours providing dialysis care. Can’t leave, can’t ever answer the phone, we talk through the intercom for needs. I come out puffy and sweaty and hoping all the virus is coming off with my PPE.
Dialysis patients are incredibly high risk.
All of the nurses I know or work with are sick of the Maskholes, the Covidiots, whatever you want to call them. Just so tired of the deliberate stupidity.
We don’t want people to die, we understand when they do, but we don’t like it when we order up a morgue cart from materials management who gets into an argument with EVS on who’s job it is to deliver it. Cleaning the body, we don’t remove anything like foleys or central lines in case of autopsy. Toe tagging it (yes that’s real) Wrapping it in a plastic bag, putting it in another bag, getting it on the cart, covering the cart, and getting it off the unit before other patients get a glimpse.
These....idiots... who think a virus gives two shits about their political opinions need to do a little volunteer work in a long term care facility, where what’s left of a person if they survive total organ shutdown and live, often end up.
Sorry, I’m just tired, and I’m frustrated. How can these fuckers think a mask is some sort of challenge?
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