Two nurses dismissed for choosing to remain unvaccinated on Thursday after Rhode Island updated its guidelines with options for COVID-positive healthcare workers to return to work. did.
“We’ve abandoned common sense,” registered nurse Hannah Denietris said when she appeared in “Fox and Friends.”
Denietris tells co-host Brian Kilmeade that hospitals are “minimum risk of infection” and vaccinated workers are “no risk of infection” negative than unvaccinated workers He said he was “dissatisfied” with him.
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At Fox & Friends First last Thursday, registered nurse Kim Theroux called the guidance “confusing” and claimed that bringing in COVID-positive employees could put patients and staff at risk. Did. She said healthy, negative-tested unvaccinated health workers should also be allowed to work.
On March 7, 2021, more than 300 people announced strikes in front of St. Vincent Hospital as union nurses in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Theroux also told co-host Ashley Strohmier that he believed the new option was “discriminatory” against unvaccinated workers.
In a statement to the Providence Journal, Rhode Island Health Department spokeswoman Joseph Wendellken states that “latest guidance” is “most SARS-Cov-2 infections occur early in the disease.” He said it reflects the data.
Wendelken added that facility managers need to use “clinical judgment” when deciding on staffing when there is a shortage of health care workers.
Keila Lynch, a critical care nurse at North Memorial Health Hospital, wore a protective gown during the shift on December 7, 2020, before entering the COVID-19 patient’s room.
A note was sent to employees at the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital on Friday, saying that “people who are exposed to the COVID-19 test or who are positive but asymptomatic” are “staffed” if they wear the N95. Mask explained that he can continue to report working in a “crisis situation”.
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So far, hospitals did not have to ask COVID-positive workers to report their jobs, but this can change as staff shortages continue and Omicron puts pressure on hospitals.
“Like other states across the country, Rhode Island provides guidance on CDC quarantine and quarantine. Rhode Island currently has no facilities with COVID-positive staff,” Wendelken said Wednesday. ..
Emma Colton of Fox News contributed to this report.
