05/05/2020
COVID-19
It has been very challenging both financially and personally within our world right now; frustrating, unsure, scared, sad, and I have been feeling helpless to help those who rely on my services.
As a nurse and owner of Sweet Feet, I provide community footcare that needs a more medical procedure then a regular pedicure. I have not been considered an "Essential" service during this Covid-19. I have 4 regulatory bodies/health authorities that guide my decision to perform any footcare. Being a privately owned business also puts me in a different category.
That being said, I am now only allowed to do
"Urgent and high risk" footcare!
There are many obstacles that will guide my process of whether or not to attend to you/or your family member's footcare . Please be patient as Denise and I try to develop a strategy and plan of how to assess each one of your important phone calls!
We will use an assessment tool and screening process which you will sign off on before footcare is done.We will advise you over the phone of the risks.
Safety precautions are most important to protect all of us!
Please bear in mind that there is a process and many considerations for all environments which I enter.
I need/will contact the Director of Care at each home before I enter to be informed of the most updated policy, procedure and P.P.E required at each facility.
If I enter your home, there is a safety protocol.
What is P.P.E.?
Gown, gloves, proper mask, face shield or eye goggles, and sanitizer.
The availability of proper protective equipment is extremely hard to acquire! Suppliers are supporting as many as they can, however back orders are taking forever.
I can't help but relate to September 9/11 and all the new procedures that were put in place to protect us. Sometimes, it takes a catastrophe to rebuild our world. I have faith that good will develop from all this. I also hope that there will be many changes to the policy and procedures for us all to have more clarity and guidance for all of the footcare/community facility/clinic nurses and operations.
Stay safe, Healthy and Hopeful!
Melinda and Denise
