August 1, 2020

7:04AM

Yesterday, is the first day of my 7 days duty. I woke up around 6:00AM, checked my messages, and read the endorsement of the nurse-on-duty (NOD) of the previous shift. We exchanged few messages, for the questions and clarifications. Then at 7AM, I started coordinating.

We have a groupchat in messenger, together with the focal person (HRMO) and the transport team (MDRRMO). We usually discuss who will be arriving, their ETA, and other important details. I coordinate with them, then I will coordinate with our isolation and quarantine staff. Coordination is very important in properly managing all these returning residents.

After reviewing our monitoring tool, and planned my activity for the day, I prepared and went to MIU. This photo above was taken when my colleague, who is part of our diagnostics team, is donning his PPE because we have 2 patients who were scheduled for swabbing. One had a reactive rapid test result and the other was on the same flight of a confirmed case from other town.

At 3PM, as soon as the ambulance arrived after transporting the specimen sample to the laboratory, we started transferring our patients who completed their 14-day isolation/quarantine in our facility to their barangays. Here, we also do coordination. We coordinate with the Brgy. Chairman that someone has been discharged and they are for home quarantine and are to be monitored by the BHERTs that they are following all our protocols.

We have a total of 12 patients who were discharged. We finished transferring all of them around 8PM. Here's a photo during our last stop:

We had 5 admissions yesterday, but we are expecting more arrivals today. I gotta start my day.

I hope you guys love what you are doing, stay strong, be patient, everything will be okay soon. :)