Another day, another scourge – McKnights long -term care news

I don't appreciate McKnight's. The way you forced me to experience the pandemic with a flashback provoking piece, written so lively on the occasion of Covid's fifth anniversary.

By the way, what do you get a pandemic in the fifth anniversary? My research indicates that it should be some wood. So maybe a carved memorial syringe?

However, according to this excellent article and all the traumatic memories that it revived, I suddenly have a deadly scourge of my own: mice. Unfortunately, this experience is reflected on admittedly trivial measures that the long -term care profession faced in these darkest early days.

Paralysis of ignorance: Do you remember, what it felt like to suddenly be a new deadly threat that was very little known? Welcome to my current world, where I cannot find out where the mice come from or how they spread.

Inadequate staff: I immediately called an expert on mouse removal, but he did not appear without apology or explanation. In despair, I was forced to improvise my own strategy for mouse juice with limited success.

To PSA: to PSA: In order to protect myself from touching a masted surface, I have recently bought latex gloves, worn an isolation dress and weakened by drawers for an old facial shield if you start jumping on my head.

Infection obsession: The potential to develop a deadly born illness in mouse lurks in every dark corner and in every work, and I have repeated a telescopic selfie stick to draw open cupboard doors from a safe distance. When I reacted to a sudden panic, I even looked into the water reservoir of my coffee machine with a flashlight to ensure that it was free.

Visitor restrictions: Strangely enough, nobody will enter my house now that you know that the premises are dangerously affected by mouse. So like in the old days I positioned a visitor chair on the terrace next to an open window.

Oh, and I drank only one liter of bleach.

Things I think Was written by Gary Tetz, a two-time National Silver Medalist and three-time winner of the regional gold and silver medal in the Association of Business Press Editers (ASBPE) Awards program and an award for excellence award winners at the APEX Awards. He has been amusing, inspiring, informing and sometimes confused by long -term care since the end of an earlier century. He is the author and video producer of Consonus Healthcare in Portland, OR.

The opinions expressed in McKnights long -term paw news Guest contributions are that of the author and not necessarily that of that of McKnights long -term paw news Or his editors.

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