While Providence hospitals await shipments from manufacturers and potentially the Strategic National Stockpile, some surgical masks are being collected and sent to Medline Industries for reprocessing ...

Last week, nurses and staff at Providence Sacred Heart and Holy Family hospitals shared their concerns for their own safety and that of their patients, as the hospital system worked to restrict the ...

Nurses at Santa Monica hospitals say they are being asked to reuse protective masks as they treat a swell of coronavirus patients and are demanding that their employers and the government provide an ...

In a recent study published in eBioMedicine, researchers examined the efficiency of surgical masks, fabric masks, N95 respirators, and KN95 respirators in lowering the severe acute respiratory ...

ALLEGAN, Mich. -- A surgical nurse at a Michigan hospital has had some free time on her hands, so she decided to to use her crafting skills to help some of her own. "I'm a surgical nurse and I haven't ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Ten nurses have been suspended from their jobs at a Santa Monica, California hospital after refusing to care for COVID-19 patients without being provided protective N95 face ...

Nurses in the COVID-19 unit of a local hospital refused to enter patients’ rooms Thursday because the hospital has not provided them with N95 masks. For the last three weeks, nurses on Providence St.

The nation’s largest union of registered nurses is criticizing a CDC committee for planning to vote on updated infection control guidance for healthcare settings without reviewing public comment. The ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Ten nurses at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica have reportedly been suspended after refusing to care for COVID-19 patients without N95 masks. Nurse Mike ...

Apart from public use, surgical masks are extensively used by physicians, nurses, social workers, housekeeping staff, and others who are at a high risk of exposure to such airborne diseases including, ...

A Michigan sheriff’s department that previously said it would not enforce statewide mask laws, is attempting to enforce a seldom-used law against a woman who has called out anti-mask nurses online.