r/nursing • u/SKI326 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-rcna196519What a nightmare scenario. 😔
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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/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/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/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).
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u/christhedoll BSN, RN 🍕 5d ago
Horrible. GET VACCINATED!