Caring for COVID Patients on Non-COVID Dedicated Units

The information below is intended to educate caregivers on proper care of COVID patients on regular patient-care floors.

Please note that Covenant Children's decided to move care of COVID patients back to patient floors starting 2/5 due to our small COVID census and the staffing challenges of continuing to staff a barely, and sometimes unused, unit. Since these patients can be safely cared for on regular units, by following proper PPE and safety practices, it made sense to move towards normalizing COVID as a disease requiring isolation as it's now a part of life that will have to be treated the same as other organisms requring isolation for the forseeable future.

Guidance Documents

• Normalizing COVID
• PAPR Use During Invasive Procedures
• Signs
  • Aerosol-Generating Procedure (AGP) Underway Sign
  • Special Respiratory Precautions - AGP
  • Special Respiratory Precautions - No AGP
  • Airborne Isolation Cleaning Time
• Contact Info

Videos

• Donning and Doffing PPE
• PPE Reminders and Normalization of COVID
• General Info to Know (Isolation Carts, Signage, PPE, and Clustered Care)
• Visitors
  • Please note the visitor policy has been updated since recording to allow 2 visitors. However, COVID patients are still encouraged to only have 1 visitor whenever possible. Please refer to the Visitor Policy for exceptions - e.g. if family members of a COVID need to switch out, this is still permitted.
• Transporting Patients
• Dietary and EVS
• Care of Non-AGP Patients
• Discontinuation of Transmission Based Precautions
• AGPs and Negative Pressure Rooms