Personal Care
Last Updated: April 17th
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This page is designed to help with your personal care such as eating, drinking, showering, what to do with your clothes after a shift.
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Wellness Resources
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Below link is a well designed easy to digest comprehensive workbook about psychological "First Aid" for Us; frontline health care workers during COVID19. 56 pages long, but full of information and info-graphics to help us identify with many of our experiences during the last few months.
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Psychological First Aid for Frontline Health Care Providers (56 page workbook)
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Make a Zoom Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe Glass
Garnish: Dust with chocolate powder
How to Make: Shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass
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2 shot Cognac VSOP
1/2 Shot Honey syrup (3 honey to 1 water)
1 shot Single cream / half-and-half
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Where/How to Shower/Change after a shift
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Showers are in the Male and Female Locker areas in the basement just off the J-wing Elevators in ER next to yellow zone. Male locker is closer to Elevator. They are largely unmarked. You need to bring your ID badge to get in. No Towels provided.
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May 26: Request to not remove more than one scrub suit at a time from machine (no taking extra clean scrubs [>1 set] home). New limits to machine to only allow 1/hour. Total scrub limit does not seem to have changed.
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For urgent scrub issues (e.g. you need scrubs and machine does not work or not credits). During business hours, ext. 7784 - after hours, vocera "porter Lead hand". They can get you scrubs.
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New Policy Change for Scrub suit availability
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Infographic on how to keep yourself from self-contamination before during and after shift
