Quack! Quack! It's time to get fitted!
You will most likely be exposed to patients with TB and Measles at some point before you are finished with the program. But don't be scared my little ducklings you will be protected.
One day they will corral all of you into a room and fit you for a particulate mask. Probably around the time you're wrapping up your OB clinicals.
They will put a mask on you, then put a big plastic bubble over you head, spray something inside, and ask if you can smell something. If you don't smell anything it means it fits properly.
Make sure you don't smell anything. Don't let the big stupid plastic bubble and your classmates laughing at one another distract you.
Once you say you can't smell the spray, they will give you two masks that are your size, and send you on your way. Check the size. It will be small or regular. It's written on the mask.
That way when you go to your independent study and the nurse says lets go in the isolation room with the patient who has TB, you know for sure you are grabbing the right sized mask out of the box.
No one is really going to stress that to you when you get fitted.
For those of you wondering what the duck references are about. Check the link below:
http://www.buyemp.com/product/kimberly-clark-tecnol-fluidshield-n95-particulate-filter-respirator-and-surgical-mask
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