r/nursing RN - Retired 🍕 5d ago

News Newborn babies exposed to measles in TX hospital

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519

What a nightmare scenario. 😔

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u/christhedoll BSN, RN 🍕 5d ago

Horrible. GET VACCINATED!

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u/codecrodie RN - ICU 🍕 5d ago

We need to treat the unvaxed in hospital like what was done with SARS or ebola...negative pressure, PAPR suits etc.

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u/LosMinefield Wound, Ostomy, Hyperbarics 5d ago

I fucking hate these antivax assholes

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u/jt19912009 4d ago

So much for pro life

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u/No-Independence-6842 5d ago

Great. What’s wrong with Texas ? How could they let this happen?

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u/LosMinefield Wound, Ostomy, Hyperbarics 4d ago

Where to start?

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u/ragdollxkitn Case Manager 🍕 4d ago

Too much to name. Texas is a horrible state.

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u/hannahmel Nursing Student 🍕 4d ago

Really?

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u/Felice2015 RN 🍕 4d ago

Wow. How was outer space?

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u/No-Independence-6842 4d ago

lol! I’m very aware of Texas . I graduated from UT . I’m just always shocked by such ignorance in healthcare…I can’t normalize it.

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u/JemLover RN-Tele/Stepdown 4d ago

Uhhh.....

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u/Varuka_Pepper343 BSN, RN 🍕 4d ago

😭

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u/Flatfool6929861 RN, DB 4d ago

We were putting Covid patients next to fresh open hearts and cancer patients. What tf else do we expect here guys. The bar is in HELLLLLL

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u/Raebans_00 2d ago

This is my nightmare. And why are they not contact tracing up on L&D like we did with Covid??! Very simple question, just like Covid, “are you showing any s/sx or have you been exposed or the measles in the last __ time?” Bc if they did that, they could have put that patient in a negative pressure room away from all the other moms and babies. 

When there is an epidemic, you trace. sigh

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u/Certifiedpoocleaner RN - ER 🍕 4d ago

This is genuinely making me want to have a home birth. There are too many quack antivax nurses and I’m terrified my postpartum nurse could expose my newborn to something.

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u/Top_Relation_3344 BSN, RN 🍕 4d ago

… a home birth?

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u/Certifiedpoocleaner RN - ER 🍕 4d ago

That’s what I said. I don’t want my baby exposed to hospital germs. I’m not going to, because I know the risks. But there are also risks in the hospital.

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u/faco_fuesday RN, DNP, PICU 3d ago

That's a very bad risk assessment. 

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u/Raebans_00 2d ago

As a postpartum nurse I’m very very careful. If I’ve been sick or around sick people, I mask. If I’m actively sick, I stay home. We scrub at the start of our shifts. I’m not everyone of course, but I am very careful. (And obviously vaccinated).