COVID-19 Testing Protocols in IU School of Optometry

 Dear IUSO Faculty, Staff, and Students,

Albeit this message relates to understudies essentially, everybody working at the IU School of Optometry ought to know about our school's COVID-19 testing conventions.
IUSO Protocol for COVID Testing and Quarantine

A person who encounters COVID side effects or suspects they are encountering COVID side effects ought to:

    Contact the IU Health Virtual COVID-19 screening site by clicking here and CAS Authenticating. The site is likewise available by means of on.iu.edu via looking for COVID Health Services.
    If your IU Health Virtual COVID-19 screening meeting suggests that you get tried:
        Quickly self-quarantine.
        Tell Dr. Kim Kohn, your facility manager, and all class/lab teachers at the earliest opportunity to tell them that you encountered COVID side effects and are self-isolating and anticipating test results.
        On the off chance that experimental outcomes are positive:
            Follow the proposals of the IU Health Virtual Screening as for self quarantine and getting back to school.
         On the off chance that the experimental outcomes are negative:
            Follow the suggestions of the IU Health Virtual Screening regarding self quarantine and getting back to school.
        Share all IU Health Virtual Screening Results and Recommendations with Dr. Kim Kohn, Associate Dean for Students, who will impart to workforce and staff as the need might arise.

The people Who Are in Close Contact with COVID-Positive Individuals

What considers close contact?

    You were inside 6 feet of somebody who has COVID-19 for somewhere around 15 minutes and not wearing veils.
    You gave care at home to somebody who is wiped out with COVID-19.
    You had direct actual contact with the individual (contacted, embraced, or kissed them).
    You shared eating or drinking utensils.
    They wheezed, hacked, or some way or another got respiratory drops on you.

For medical services laborers and IUSO understudies, close contact happens provided that the people were not wearing individual defensive gear (PPE), explicitly a facial covering or a respirator. In the event that the contaminated individual was not wearing a mask or facial covering, the uncovered individual must likewise have been wearing eye security.

An individual — including medical services experts (HCP) and understudy clinicians — who was in close contact with a tried person COVID-positive inside the most recent 10 days ought to:

    Contact the IU Health Virtual COVID-19 screening site by tapping on the connection and CAS verifying. The site is additionally open through one.iu.edu via looking for COVID Health Services.
    If your IU Health Virtual COVID-19 screening meeting suggests that you get tried:
        Quickly self-quarantine.
        It is suggested that testing happen no sooner than five (5) days after the last contact with a COVID-positive person to diminish the frequency of bogus pessimistic experimental outcomes.
        Advise Dr. Kim Kohne, Associate Dean for Students, your center boss, and all class/lab teachers straightaway to tell them that you encountered COVID side effects and are self-isolating and anticipating test results.
        In the event that experimental outcomes are positive.
            Follow the suggestions of the IU Health Virtual Screening regarding self-quarantine and getting back to school.
        Assuming experimental outcomes are negative.
            Follow the proposals of the IU Health Virtual Screening concerning self-quarantine and getting back to school.
            After getting back to work, people ought to look for advancement of COVID side effects and follow the convention for the individuals who experience COVID side effects assuming that they create.
        Share all IU Health Virtual Screening Results and Recommendations with Dr. Kim Kohne, Associate Dean for Students, who will impart to personnel and staff as required.

Local area Responsibility Acknowledgment Required

Everybody ought to go view IU's Community Responsibility Acknowledgment, and sign it on the off chance that you have not done so as of now.
Limit Social Interactions

Though we have some control over what occurs in our center, clinical labs, and inside the school, we have no control over what befalls you beyond these spots. All optometry understudies have endorsed on to be medical care suppliers. Accordingly, you will be treated as expert medical services suppliers during this general wellbeing crisis. This is important with the goal that your schooling can continue under these prohibitive conditions. Subsequently, as an expert you will be supposed to restrict your social collaborations in order to decrease expected openness to COVID-positive people. The more individuals circle, the more opportunity for openness will cause more requirement for isolating, and more prominent disturbance to your schooling and those of your partners.

We have made careful arrangements to make center and the school as protected as could really be expected and viable with propelling your schooling immediately. Kindly assist us with going on by being really watchful and capable while you are outside the facility or school.