I am not going to point fingers, but this is what I have personally witnessed from working in the nursing home.
It is the visitor's right to enter the facility without a mask. It is the resident's right to not wear a mask in the facility. Healthcare workers can have religious exemptions from being vaccinated. This ensures covid will always find a way in.
As a Healthcare worker, we can only be without a mask when everyone in the facility has tested negative.
Yet even the precautions within the building are overbearing and pointless now. The minimal covering does not ensure germs are not spread around. There is no more quarantining the covid in one area of the building separate from others. You can have a covid room directly across the hall from a non-covid room, so that when the door is opened out pours the germs into the hallway. Personal protective equipment does not cover us from head to toe. The main concern I notice is the germs getting in our hair. And what is the most common action when caring for a resident in bed? Leaning over them while sprinkling germs onto them from the tops of our heads.
Workers have left the field because of covid, and I have dealt with it too long. I am doubting I can continue much longer in this field. But I also don't know what else to do at my age.
It is the visitor's right to enter the facility without a mask. It is the resident's right to not wear a mask in the facility. Healthcare workers can have religious exemptions from being vaccinated. This ensures covid will always find a way in.
As a Healthcare worker, we can only be without a mask when everyone in the facility has tested negative.
Yet even the precautions within the building are overbearing and pointless now. The minimal covering does not ensure germs are not spread around. There is no more quarantining the covid in one area of the building separate from others. You can have a covid room directly across the hall from a non-covid room, so that when the door is opened out pours the germs into the hallway. Personal protective equipment does not cover us from head to toe. The main concern I notice is the germs getting in our hair. And what is the most common action when caring for a resident in bed? Leaning over them while sprinkling germs onto them from the tops of our heads.
Workers have left the field because of covid, and I have dealt with it too long. I am doubting I can continue much longer in this field. But I also don't know what else to do at my age.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
~ Erin Hunter
