I’m a registered nurse working in Aged Care… which used to be a respectable thing. Now staff in aged care is portrayed in a bad way.
Why? because residents are getting Covid 19 and they never left the facility – it was brought in to them. Same as Norovirus, Influenza etc. All staff working with the residents come and go. We have families, we have needs, we go shopping, supermarkets, butchers, doctors, restaurants, schools. We do our best. e don’t want to pass anything onto the residents intentionally, nor do we want to bring a disease home to our children, our families, our loved ones.
We take precautions, we wash our hands, we self isolate as necessary – but what happens?
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