We would like to share with you some additional tips and guidance suggested by our CEO, Eric Dickson, MD:
Tips to Keep You Well at Home and/or at Work:
- Wash your hands often and avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
- Avoid sharing personal household items. Don’t share utensils, dishes, cups, towels, etc.
- Stay home if you’re sick, and if so, follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations on how to avoid spreading COVID-19 (link below).
- Cover coughs and sneezes.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at least daily.
- Wash your work clothes thoroughly yourself. Use a normal laundry detergent according to washing machine instructions and dry thoroughly using the warmest temperatures recommended on the clothing label.
- Social Distancing: Put distance between yourself and other people. This one is my personal favorite because my teenagers at home have been teaching me this for years!
- Keep your sense of humor! It doesn’t have anything to do with infection control, but it will help us all get through this!
Additionally, at Work:
- Easy to clean: Wear clothing to work that can readily be washed at home.
- Consider bringing a change of clothes to wear home at the end of your shift or upon arrival to home.
- Consider going to “bare below the elbows” so that it is easier to wash hands/forearms and avoid the possibility that long sleeves are inadvertently contaminated.
- Don’t wear ties as they are harder to clean and might be contaminated.
- Wipe before you type; disinfect a shared computer keyboard before you start to use it.
- Disinfect your cell phone, pager, laptop computers or other devices before you go home.
- Try to have social distancing while at work and avoid having your rounding team cluster around a single computer.
There is great information on the CDC Website https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html for those who are sick at home as well as household members of those who have COVID-19 or are symptomatic.