What do you do at the hospital? Do your colleagues openly complain about the masks? What is the compliance rate? How "into" masking policy would you say the staff is? Like, are they aware of the Cochrane brouhaha; do they stay up on NYT/Atlantic/Twitter on all these relating to masking? Has the policy divided staff into do-gooders and scofflaws? Give me a sense of the sociology.
What do you do at the hospital? Do your colleagues openly complain about the masks? What is the compliance rate? How "into" masking policy would you say the staff is? Like, are they aware of the Cochrane brouhaha; do they stay up on NYT/Atlantic/Twitter on all these relating to masking? Has the policy divided staff into do-gooders and scofflaws? Give me a sense of the sociology.
ICU nurse. I'm a bit of a scofflaw as are some of my colleagues. Most just bitch but comply. Everyone is over it but the powers that be don't seem to care. Not sure where the pressure is coming from to continue masking. Other area hospitals have stopped requiring them. There's rumor they are waiting for Biden to declare the pandemic "over." Like it already isn't. Some visitors have been ignoring the mask requirement but I've yet to see anyone get tossed for not wearing one. I don't say anything to the non-masked. I take mine down every time I introduce myself to a new patient and I take it down and keep it down if my patient is hard of hearing. Technically I could get busted for that but I don't really care anymore.
What do you do at the hospital? Do your colleagues openly complain about the masks? What is the compliance rate? How "into" masking policy would you say the staff is? Like, are they aware of the Cochrane brouhaha; do they stay up on NYT/Atlantic/Twitter on all these relating to masking? Has the policy divided staff into do-gooders and scofflaws? Give me a sense of the sociology.
ICU nurse. I'm a bit of a scofflaw as are some of my colleagues. Most just bitch but comply. Everyone is over it but the powers that be don't seem to care. Not sure where the pressure is coming from to continue masking. Other area hospitals have stopped requiring them. There's rumor they are waiting for Biden to declare the pandemic "over." Like it already isn't. Some visitors have been ignoring the mask requirement but I've yet to see anyone get tossed for not wearing one. I don't say anything to the non-masked. I take mine down every time I introduce myself to a new patient and I take it down and keep it down if my patient is hard of hearing. Technically I could get busted for that but I don't really care anymore.
IтАЩm sure that a lot of it is risk management driven by legal departments in the context of government guidance.
If they donтАЩt follow the government guidance, they may leave themselves open to lawsuits.
ThatтАЩs usually where the problem is.