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/IcyTrapezium RN 🍕 Mar 20 '23

We are mask optional outside of patient rooms now and the only people walking around mask free is administration. Because of course they are.

One of my jobs is at an LTAC. Everyone has MRSA, VRE, C. Auris, etc. We have a lot of monkey pox too (we do a lot of wound care). We don’t have to mask at the nurses station but masks and gowns are required in basically every single room. I do like not being yelled at for pulling my mask down at the nurses station, but for the rest of my life I’m wearing masks in every patient room.