COVID-19 Issue No. 2: PPE "Shortages" and What You Can Do
It’s been a gut-wrenching couple of weeks. I’m receiving calls from nurses justifiably panicked about the shortages of PPE. In Nevada, it’s getting worse by the day. With all of the focus on COVID-19, a new problem is emerging—a shortage of supplies protecting nurses from even scarier infectious diseases, such as MRSA and C-Diff. The newspaper reported that union nurses at Mountain View Hospital may be going on strike soon. Although management is blaming the strike on greed,