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Don't really know but my guess is that it is a combination of: 1. Regulations against using non-approved medical equipment of unknown provenance. 2. A worry ab

Don't really know but my guess is that it is a combination of: 1. Regulations against using non-approved medical equipment of unknown provenance. 2. A worry about health care workers who don't have stuff they can bring from home. It's not as if you can go about and buy an N95 mask right now. If some of the healthcare workers have respirators that they have lying around at home and some don't then it could cause friction on the unit.

joshstrange 7y ago
This comment is not directed towards you as much as the hospitals 1. All regulations are pretty far out the window at this point, nurses are already reusing single-use items all over the place. 2. Oh so since we can't protect everyone we can't protect anyone?
- thinkharderdev 7y ago
  I agree in general, especially on point 1. If it's just an issue of regulations then that is insane. On the second point I would actually be more sympathetic to their position (though probably not enough to actually ban employees from doing it). Humans are funny and if some people on a unit have better equipment than others it can certainly cause some interpersonal tension that over-stressed hospitals can't deal with right now.
  - joshstrange 7y ago
    It would be a different story if hospitals were upfront and honest. They are currently being neither. They should be protecting the people who can actually help save other people even if they can't protect everyone. Should nurses in KY stop wearing masks because nurses in NY are out? I understand you point on "interpersonal tension" but people need to get over it right now and protect themselves in whatever way possible even if that means I walk into a hospital and see a nurse with a bandana over their face (already happening in some hospitals AND part of the CDC "Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks" [0] -- Read the "HCP use of homemade masks" section) [0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/face-masks.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/f...

joshstrange 7y ago

This comment is not directed towards you as much as the hospitals 1. All regulations are pretty far out the window at this point, nurses are already reusing single-use items all over the place. 2. Oh so since we can't protect everyone we can't protect anyone?

thinkharderdev 7y ago
I agree in general, especially on point 1. If it's just an issue of regulations then that is insane. On the second point I would actually be more sympathetic to their position (though probably not enough to actually ban employees from doing it). Humans are funny and if some people on a unit have better equipment than others it can certainly cause some interpersonal tension that over-stressed hospitals can't deal with right now.
- joshstrange 7y ago
  It would be a different story if hospitals were upfront and honest. They are currently being neither. They should be protecting the people who can actually help save other people even if they can't protect everyone. Should nurses in KY stop wearing masks because nurses in NY are out? I understand you point on "interpersonal tension" but people need to get over it right now and protect themselves in whatever way possible even if that means I walk into a hospital and see a nurse with a bandana over their face (already happening in some hospitals AND part of the CDC "Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks" [0] -- Read the "HCP use of homemade masks" section) [0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/face-masks.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/f...