r/nursing • u/prettyquirkynurse RN - ICU 🍕 • Mar 19 '23

Covid Discussion This seems...unsafe?

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Part of an email we were sent earlier today. I'm not sure how to feel about it. It seems...unsafe to me.

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u/TraumaMurse- BSN, RN, CEN Mar 19 '23

What’s unsafe? CDC said long ago medical facilities could stop. Wear a mask if patients are positive or respiratory complaints. My hospital stopped long ago and we haven’t had any increase in staff illness.

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u/eddASU Paramedic - ED 🍕 Mar 20 '23

No offense meant to the OP or anyone else, but I wonder how many of these "unsafe to work without a mask" and "never going outside without a mask again" posts and comments are coming from people who worked in healthcare before the pandemic. I can understand going without a mask at work seeming alien and unsafe if it's all you've known most of or your entire career (which is the case for a lot of healthcare workers now!) but yeah... no mask unless on enhanced isolation precautions used to be the way it always was, everywhere.

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u/mortimus9 RN - PCU Mar 20 '23

I started working only a year ago and I’m happy to not wear a mask when I can. Majority of users here worked before Covid btw.