Dd shouldn't go to work as a student midwife today??

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Positive covid test last week and still positive this morning. She's due to be doing visits today and really doesn't want to lose her hours, but she's going to be handling newborns so that's a no-go isn't it?

She can't get hold of anyone until 9am to check.

Risk to pregnant women and newborns everyone. Student midwives rotate through all departments, wards and clinics asociated related to pregnant women, some go on to deliver healthy babies, some don't.
Gosh, there are an amazing number of totally irrelevant points about 'aren' t we living with covid now?'

I really didn't think anyone out there still believed covid was only a cold... do a bit of reading up about it.

She didn't go in and is still testing positive. The advice was if it's been a week then she doesn't need to test again and is fine to come in. But she's still ++++ and it's been almost a week. She could well pass the 7 day mark and still get +++ - the only difference being that she won't 'know'. Seems v confusing!

Interestingly, a friend of hers who is training to be a paeds nurse also tested +++ and she was told to go in regardless as long as she wasn't "obviously coughing". Same Trust. What????

The negative test thing is a misnomer because you can test positive for up to 90 days, well after symptoms have gone.

Could she go in wearing a mask (the "proper" ones, not fabric type)?

Or just accept that she's better safe than sorry and wait for 24-hrs until last symptom gone?

Or ask her manager which option she should go for - as in not "What should I do?", but "Should I do a or b? Or is there a third option?"

@DivorcingEU this is really unlikely on an LFT, false negatives are super common, false positives not so. If you have so much dead virus left in your nose that the test can pick it up, you probably still have a lot of live virus.

But definitely the OP's daughter should ideally always be wearing an N95 mask when at work, to protect her patients and herself.

Well I wouldn't ask on mumsnet as posters make up.what they think should be the trusts rules and guidelines and not what actually are
Does the trust not ha r a protocol on line ?
failing that surely somebody on the in patient maternity unit would know?

It,s usually those with cosy work from home jobs that are the most outraged I find and think it's simple to just " stay home"🙄

I work in the NHS and would not be coming in with covid.

Tbf no one thinks its 'just a cold' it's a virus that you either feel fine with or are absolutely floored with.
But it is similar in that it's a virus that has no cure and just needs to be treated as such with no treatment for most.
If you work within an NHS trust, you follow their guidance. I'll say it again, our trust expects you in work if you feel well enough. No one is asked to test anymore, regardless of what your symptoms are! So if you have a bit of a cough, sore throat, cold symptoms, you go into work, like you would have done pre pandemic. You'd have no idea if it's a bit of a cold, or Covid, so no moral dilemma to discuss.
So yes, it's treated like a cold. If you feel too unwell to work, you stay off if you feel like you can pop a paracetamol and crack on, you do just that.
The NHS cannot sustain multiple staff isolating, like it or not, we will be in work bugs and all

Ours does say don’t test but it also says don’t go in with a temp or flu like symptoms, mild ones are fine.
Although it also contradicts itself by saying don’t work with symptoms of a respiratory illness elsewhere. If you do test you have to be off for 5days.

I’m expecting this new policy to last as long as the remove masks one which lasted a month.

Yes, I do know that as I am a clinician who works in an NHS trust, albeit with a much clearer policy on Covid +ve in certain areas of the Trust such as 'Maternity'.
Re my 'nobody still thinks it's just a cold' comment a poster, (not the OP) above wrote just that but by then I was so annoyed by some (suffering currently from a very, very bad bout of covid myself, worst by far of 3 bouts I've had,) I simply couldn't be bothered to go back through all the posts to find it

I can see law suits turning up when it's discovered she single handedly started a new epidemic.

😂😂😂