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These are related to the OSHA ETS: The hospital restrains and interferes with nurses obtaining N95 masks. The hospital does not provide them on the units where RNs work. RNs may pick a mask up at the entrance or from a house supervisor. They are not provided … See More
on the nursing units for usage as needed and per proper use. There have been several outbreaks of covid on the 4N unit of the nurses working there and the float pool nurses working there. We have names to provide. Nursing management stated to the union on Sept 7th it did not agree that the definition of a covid exposure was 15 minutes cumulative in a 24 hr period. Visitor entrances are not limited. Nurses report they are not getting notified of exposures. Physical distancing is not enforced. Breakrooms have no HEPA filters. The hospital does not screen employees for covid, the state clocking is is a declaration you are covid and covid symptom free. ER nurses are not required or encouraged to wear N95 masks or isolation gowns when going from room to room in the ER. Nurses were not informed that patients arriving for surgery and procedures were no longer being tested for covid prior to being cared for. Environmental cleaning is not occurring more. Hospital actively encouraging not to miss work for vaccines and symptoms. We request OSHA communicate with us as the Union Representative. We request an inspection.

Alleged Hazards: 3, Employees Exposed: 20
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2021-09-29
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Hospital does not enforce the visitor's policy that it has posted, and several visitors enter past the screeners and get into the cafeteria, waiting areas, and patient rooms. it is to be 1 visitor per person and it is well over this at times. RNs report up … See More
to 3 per visitor. Hospital just started fit testing in September for N95s. Nurses are given a color-coded dot to indicate their model of N95. If they don't have their model, they are given the most comparable model for their color-coded dot. They are not fit tested for the comparable models. The screeners are "stingy" with N95 masks at the entrance door. When nurses wear surgical masks and N95s, they are not worn as not as single use. Nurses are not wearing protection at least as protective as a N95 filtering face piece respirator when they are exposed to suspected or + COVID patients. Or, when exposed to patients who have not been screened for +COVID patients. ED and 4N, rooms 400-407(where covids are cohorted), have N95s on the units. The other units do not have them on the units, including the ICU, PAT Clinic, Pre-Op, Surgery, PACU, Rehab, 3N Med Tele, 3S CCU, 3E Neuro Ortho, SSU, Labor & Delivery, NICU. The RNs must ask a manager for N95s or leave units to get one. The Labor and Delivery RNs report being required to get N95s masks from the house supervisor, but it keeps changing places so it's confusing. They have no negative pressure room. Patients are only tested for covid if they have symptoms. 4N, rooms 400-407, covid cohort area, the trash and dirty linens from +covid rooms are dragged down the halls. Dirty food trays are carried from the +covid rooms and sometimes placed at the nurse's station before removing them. In Surgery area(Pre op, Surgery, PACU): They are not testing all patients, unless they are a high-risk procedure, but this does not make sense to the RNs because all are intubated and extubated. Testing makes it difficult for surgeons to ADD ON cases to the schedule , so they are not doing it. RNs bring it up to management and they say, "it will be looked at". 9/30 an email went out to the RNs saying all cases SCHEDULED after 9/27 would be tested prior to procedure, however; ADD ONs are not SCHEDULED. And the RNs report they ALREADY had cases scheduled out for 6 months with several doctors. This means these cases, because they were scheduled before 9/27, are not required to be tested. An RN gave an example of a surgery day recently, since 9/27, where 30 cases were scheduled, but only 4 were scheduled after 9/27, these were the only ones required to be tested by the hospital. House Supervisors(who pass thru all nursing units during their shifts) are not informed of what is an exposure or proper PPE: Oct 4th a Preop nurse was caring for a patient for several hours and the patients test came back + COVID. The RN had a level 3 surgical mask on and the patient had a level 1. The RN pushed the patient to the negative pressure room. A house supervisor was in the PACU as this occurred and as the RN returned to the Pre op area, she notified the super about this and what she had on. The super interrupted her and told her since she had a level 3(surgical mask)on she was OK. OSHA ETS requires protection at least as protective as an N95 filtering face piece respirator. The RN was not notified this was an exposure - she was with the patient well over 15 minutes in a surgical mask. Because the hospital did not consider this an exposure there was no contact tracing, none of the other RNs she works with were informed. This area has several RNs in common areas working together. 4N ONOGS unit multiple exposures: 7/29-8/2/21, patient admitted to 4N-ONOGS and on 8/2 tested + COVID, then was transferred to CDU. Resulted in, 9 RNs exposed, 3 PCTs and 1 Nurse Intern and 1 RN became positive who was training w/ another RN. 9/1, nurse worked as relief charge RN and tested positive on 9/7. 9/2 nurse tested positive on her shift and sent home. 9/5-9/6,


Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2021-10-08
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1) Workers who are and or may be COVID19 positive are expected to continue working as long as they are asymptomatic. 2) The employer fails to notify employees of potential exposures to COVID19 positive patients or staff. Employees receive notification only when they begin to experience symptoms, … See More
they are then notified by the hospital of their contacts with COVID19 positive patients or staff. 3) The employer fails to provide COVID19 testing to asymptomatic employees or those employees experiencing limited symptoms when they have been in contact with COVID19 positive patients and/or co-workers. 4) Employees who are positive for COVID19 and are quarantined, are instructed to return to work without a confirmed negative COVID19 test. 5) Staff share a breakroom where they remove their masks, and they share desks, computers, phones, and bathrooms. Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act.

Alleged Hazards: 5, Employees Exposed: 11
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-08-24
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