Protecting Patients and Staff in Labor and Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to rethink and reeducate our nurses on how best to protect their patients and themselves during emergencies.
Personal Protective Equipment
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing gender inequities in academic medicine.
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Read more: Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast
We need help. If we don’t receive this supporting cast, there might not be anyone left to play the role of health care provider.
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Read more: Pandemic Threatens Future of Emergency Medical Services Pandemic Threatens Future of Emergency Medical Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed persistent, wide-ranging existential threats to effective 911 emergency response.
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Read more: Pandemic Lays Bare Shortcomings of Health Care Institutions Pandemic Lays Bare Shortcomings of Health Care Institutions
The institutional shortcomings we had long tolerated and adapted to were laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Don’t Call Me a Hero: How to Meaningfully Support Health Care Workers Don’t Call Me a Hero: How to Meaningfully Support Health Care Workers
When you feel complicit in such deep structural dysfunction, it is incredibly difficult to feel heroic.
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Read more: The Fourth Wave of COVID-19: The Effects of Trauma on Health Care Workers The Fourth Wave of COVID-19: The Effects of Trauma on Health Care Workers
One year after the start of the pandemic, I fear the end is not in sight. In fact, I believe that we are on the precipice of a fourth wave.
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Read more: New Data Reignites Concerns over COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in New York State New Data Reignites Concerns over COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in New York State
Concerns over New York State’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic have recently re-emerged in light of a new report and court ruling related to the matter.
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Read more: COVID-19 and Nursing Homes: The New York State Experience COVID-19 and Nursing Homes: The New York State Experience
Questions continue over whether more might have been done to protect patients in nursing homes and other congregate settings in New York State.
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Read more: The Case for Face Shields: Improving the COVID-19 Public Health Policy Toolkit The Case for Face Shields: Improving the COVID-19 Public Health Policy Toolkit
In this post, we discuss the benefits of face shields as a substitute to face masks in the context of public health policy.
