Nurses on the front lines of the nation's hospitals have reached a breaking point.
for N95 respirator masks, surgical masks, face shields, gowns and gloves. Shortages were so severe that some hospitals were experimenting with non-medical-grade gear such as construction respirators, cloth masks and handmade gowns, the Inspector General reported.on how to preserve existing protective equipment amid dwindling supplies.
The nurses union also cited news reports of nurses deaths as evidence that state and federal government as well as hospitals need to do more to protect workers.of COVID-19 in the same VA intensive care unit where she cared for patients the past seven years. A Howard University Hospital nurse died on March 27, two weeks after becoming ill following a hospital shift.
Hannah Mumford is a nurse at Albany Medical Center in New York. The hospital is caring for a growing number of COVID-19 patients, including some who have been transferred from overwhelmed New York City hospitals. Mumford says the hospital’s protocols are changing rapidly and do not pass muster with the science-based practices she and other nurses have been trained to follow.
"We keep our workforce and community informed regularly through internal and external messaging platforms as well as daily video updates from our leadership team," Markham said.The uproar comes as nurses are direly needed to staff hospitals in hotspots across the nation.
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