COVID-19: Guidelines for personal protective equipment (PPE)

By | 2020-04-23T09:04:47-04:00 April 21st, 2020|2 Comments

The CDC created interim guidelines for personal protective equipment (PPE) after the coronavirus pandemic led to forecasts of PPE shortages and a surge in patients. This video summarizes those guidelines for nurses and other healthcare workers who are at the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    jeanine Luke May 13, 2020 at 11:24 am - Reply

    We are all in it for compassionate care. Through this pandemic as nurses, health educators we made an ethical decision to care for a diverse population no matter of culture, religious beliefs, and colour of one’s skin. A big hug to all Nurses across the globe.
    Thanks for risking your lives on a daily basis.

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    Raine July 8, 2020 at 5:26 pm - Reply

    I am an RN who works at 2 hospitals. Patients are being admitted for medical conditions such as elective surgeries, MI’s, trauma’s etc. They are being tested for Covid 19 upon admission and then are sent up to the various floors pending the test results (Med Surg, ICU, PCU). Unfortunately, some of these patients test results come back positive. This means that the nurses on these floors have been working with covid positive patients for multiple shifts without the proper PPE (just a blue surgical mask)….as sometimes it has taken days before the test results come back.

    One of the hospitals I work at does not allow us to bring in our own masks. My work around this is I bought some KN95 masks. I wear one of those KN95 masks and put a blue surgical mask over it. Management hasn’t had an issue with this because I’m still complying with their requirement to wear one of their blue surgical masks. Some versions of the KN95 mask are being sold online that are not FDA approved. Anyway, I found a website that does not price gouge and their masks are FDA approved. In addition, they also sell the face shields and blue surgical masks. I am hoping this info will help my fellow nurses/healthcare workers and give them some piece of mind. The website is http://www.cleansense.us

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