BBC4y
Coronavirus: I'm using my pizza oven to toss masks for nurses
Nurses and doctors reported shortages of essential pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) like N95 face masks, gowns and gloves. Some were having to wash and re-use masks. Watching from 800 ...
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UMC nurses demanding better working conditions from LCMC leaders
“I started during the height of COVID and 2020 and realized very early on that I don’t have a lot of protection as a nurse. We were having to reuse our personal protective equipment like our N95 mask, ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News10d
COVID liability waiver meant only for healthcare workers, not nursing homes: state Supreme Court
A top state court dealt a double blow to a nursing home named in a long-running wrongful death suit, finding in part that a ...
This California health care worker’s pay jumped by 11.7%. What’s behind the big wage hike
Abby Leal, a certified nursing assistant in Turlock, will see the biggest wage increase she’s ever gotten from her employer — ...
Becker's Hospital Review26d
CDC's highly anticipated mask guidance: 6 things to know
National Nurses ... medical masks as personal protective equipment and respiratory protection. The draft guidance states healthcare personnel may "choose voluntarily" to wear an N95 for routine ...
Business Insider India3y
A majority of nurses in a survey say they are still reusing protective gear like masks and gowns a year into the pandemic
As a result, nurses reused single-use N95 masks, which become contaminated with extended use, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many nurses also said that hospitals were ...
Time1y
Eye of the Storm
Before entering a home, he puts on an N95 mask, then a surgical mask ... Sometimes there’s nothing you can do. At one nursing home, a woman in her early 90s was already cold to the touch ...
Business Insider India4y
Understaffed hospitals in California are suspending nurses just when they need them most - and volunteers aren't being deployed
Halmy said the hospital suspended her after she asked for airborne particle-resistant N95 masks. St. John's had previously told nurses that it couldn't provide them with this gear, after the CDC ...
The Push for Minority Voters and the Undecided
Readers write about Black, Latino and undecided voters in the 2024 campaign. Also: Protection for health workers; a father’s ...
Hurricane Milton safety guidance from American Lung Association
As Florida residents brace for the landfall of Hurricane Milton on Wednesday night, the American Lung Association is offering ...
Sports Illustrated2y
Dikembe Mutombo Has Long Battled Disease in His Native Country. Then COVID-19 Hit His New Home.
After his journey, the masks that once collected dust on Home Depot’s shelves were eventually affixed to the faces of nurses, physicians and patients at the hospital in the DRC named for Mutombo ...
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COVID Levels in Bay Area Wastewater Are Now as High as the Winter Peak
A registered nurse prepares a dose of the Moderna vaccine at St. Rose ... During a rise in COVID-19 levels locally, this might include bringing a well-fitting N95 mask along to indoor spaces that you ...