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Point of care, #PPE & Safety.
Every health care practitioner has the skills (and the right) to assess their own risk at their point of care.
Please don’t take that away.
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Every health care practitioner has the skills (and the right) to assess their own risk at their point of care.
Please don’t take that away.
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To the decision makers of our health authorities & provinces, please think about that when making your policies & procedures on use of #PPE during this #COVID19 #Pandemic
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I’ve heard this situation being compared to a war, but even in a war, soldiers are not sent to fight without their protective gear.
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If “risk management” decisions start to be made to only offer #PPE to hospital nurses & not to nurses who work in other settings (Long term care, mental health, public health), what message does that send?
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Does that mean that hospital nurses are valued more?
Does that mean all other nurses are valued less?
Are nurses really willing to forgo their own safety in certain areas, just because they’ve been made to feel less valued, less important?
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Does that mean all other nurses are valued less?
Are nurses really willing to forgo their own safety in certain areas, just because they’ve been made to feel less valued, less important?
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Remember, All nurses in the settings mentioned above provide direct, face to face care.
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Do Nurses just take orders & do as they are told w/o question?
Not in my world they don’t.
We are critical thinkers, we have valued knowledge & experience.
That means we have the expertise, & the right, to assess our own risk & make our own decisions, on our own safety.
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Not in my world they don’t.
We are critical thinkers, we have valued knowledge & experience.
That means we have the expertise, & the right, to assess our own risk & make our own decisions, on our own safety.
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If you are the partner of a nurse, how do you feel about this?
How does your family feel about this?
Are you willing to sacrifice your family’s safety too?
Because that is what this comes down to.
You need to have these discussions.
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How does your family feel about this?
Are you willing to sacrifice your family’s safety too?
Because that is what this comes down to.
You need to have these discussions.
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Nurses, not protecting yourself properly, & not protecting your patients, no matter which area you work in, puts everyone, including your own families at risk.
I know you have a lot on your mind, but don’t feel pressured to “make do”.
You deserve safety.
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I know you have a lot on your mind, but don’t feel pressured to “make do”.
You deserve safety.
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Tough realities, tough questions, tough discussions I know.
But these are scenarios/decisions our health care providers (our nurses) are being faced with.
#Advocate4Change #Reality
#COVID19 #Pandemic
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But these are scenarios/decisions our health care providers (our nurses) are being faced with.
#Advocate4Change #Reality
#COVID19 #Pandemic
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I know the above tweet said end, but this new article underlines what I was trying to say quite well.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-we-should-never-expect-health-care-workers-to-treat-patients-without/
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-we-should-never-expect-health-care-workers-to-treat-patients-without/
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