On the 26th March at 8pm, we are asking everyone to show their gratitude for all those involved in the NHS & carer's everywhere by giving an applause, from wherever you may be..hang out your window, balcony, garden doors etc let them know they're efforts are appreciated, as even though you may be ok now... Who knows what might happen in the next few days, weeks or months!
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By *ixen500Couple
over a year ago
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"On the 26th March at 8pm, we are asking everyone to show their gratitude for all those involved in the NHS & carer's everywhere by giving an applause, from wherever you may be..hang out your window, balcony, garden doors etc let them know they're efforts are appreciated, as even though you may be ok now... Who knows what might happen in the next few days, weeks or months!
Please share if you can, thank you."
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Superb idea. Our port nurses and doctors are gonna be front line against this thing. Some harrowing footage on Sky news from the hospitals in Italy. They are angels |
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From a charge nurse In London.
Its horrendous at the hospital. I've done time in trauma and thought I'd seen everything but these patients are so sick. They all have ARDS. We intubated three patients the other night in the space of about 4 hours.
They've turned the trauma ward into a Covid ward and moved the trauma patients elsewhere, so my entire team has moved to another part of the hospital but we are sending trauma nurses to help staff the covid ward. We have over 100 cases now, 50% of them are DNAR.
I have friends on ITU that have two vented patients each instead of the usual one, two of my friends have contracted the virus already and one of the doctors is on a ventilator after catching it from a patient.
I've been nursing positive patients in just a surgical mask and apron, they're saving the full PPE, respiratory and goggles for ICU staff because they think they're higher risk from the virus being aerosolised by the machines.
I think I'm most likely in the incubation period right now because I've had so much exposure after the last week but they aren't offering tests to staff and so far we don't have an antibody test we only have viral swabs to tell us if a person has an active infection.
Stay inside as much as you can if you aren't already, we're starting to see healthy people in their 20s requiring mechanical ventilation, no one is completely safe it seems. |
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"From a charge nurse In London.
Its horrendous at the hospital. I've done time in trauma and thought I'd seen everything but these patients are so sick. They all have ARDS. We intubated three patients the other night in the space of about 4 hours.
They've turned the trauma ward into a Covid ward and moved the trauma patients elsewhere, so my entire team has moved to another part of the hospital but we are sending trauma nurses to help staff the covid ward. We have over 100 cases now, 50% of them are DNAR.
I have friends on ITU that have two vented patients each instead of the usual one, two of my friends have contracted the virus already and one of the doctors is on a ventilator after catching it from a patient.
I've been nursing positive patients in just a surgical mask and apron, they're saving the full PPE, respiratory and goggles for ICU staff because they think they're higher risk from the virus being aerosolised by the machines.
I think I'm most likely in the incubation period right now because I've had so much exposure after the last week but they aren't offering tests to staff and so far we don't have an antibody test we only have viral swabs to tell us if a person has an active infection.
Stay inside as much as you can if you aren't already, we're starting to see healthy people in their 20s requiring mechanical ventilation, no one is completely safe it seems."
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