How can healthcare personnel cope with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic?
– Try to get adequate sleep.- Make time to eat healthy meals.- Take breaks during your shift to rest, stretch, or check in with supportive colleagues, coworkers, friends and family.
What should healthcare workers do if they develop symptoms of COVID-19?
HCWs who develop symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 (e.g., fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of smell or taste, sore throat) should stay home and not perform triage or any other duties at the healthcare facility.
Should healthcare workers exposed to the coronavirus disease be quarantined?
Ideally, HCWs who had a high-risk exposure should be restricted from work and remain quarantined with active monitoring for COVID-19 symptoms for 14 days after the date of last exposure. If at any time the worker develops fever or symptoms, they should undergo medical evaluation and COVID-19 testing, if indicated.Those who test negative should continue to be restricted from work, actively monitored and may return to work at the end of the monitoring period if symptoms are resolved. Those HCWs who remain asymptomatic over the monitoring period may likewise return to work after 14 days.
What guidelines are provided for healthcare personnel (HCP) and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic for clinics?
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• Remind HCP not to report to work when they are ill and to notify occupational health services if they have an unprotected exposure to someone with SARS-CoV-2 infection (either in the community or in the dialysis facility).• Instruct patients to call ahead to report close contact in the past 14 days with someone with SARS-CoV-2 infection or symptoms of COVID-19 so the facility can be prepared for their arrival or triage them to a more appropriate setting (e.g., an acute care hospital).• Post signs at clinic entrances and strategic places around the facility with instructions for patients and visitors who have symptoms of COVID-19 or who have had close contact with someone with SARS-CoV-2 infection to alert staff so appropriate precautions can be implemented.