“We have also been told we will use a (surgical mask) instead. “And lastly we are being forced to make our own masks from cloth if it is necessary. … As a nurse, I can promise you I will ...

“Unfortunately, that day is here.” Many nurses want N95 masks, but the surgical masks are typically used to prevent the spread of droplet-borne illnesses like the flu. With few N95 masks ...

Sherrie Mannarino has been a registered nurse for more than four decades ... Mannarino and Tilghman added the chemicals can pass through surgical masks, like N-95s, so it is not a guaranteed protector ...

Newly released survey findings from National Nurses United indicate a significant ... relying on loose-fitting, unprotective surgical masks,” NNU said in a Jan. 17 news release on the survey.

surgical face masks in certain settings — and that doctors and nurses need to wear only surgical masks when treating patients infected by “common, endemic” viruses, like those that cause the ...

One nurse told the PA news agency she feels staff are being treated like “lambs to the slaughter” due to the inadequacy of surgical masks. Jane, which is not her real name, is a nurse from ...

The risk of hospital nurses contracting Covid-19 from patients can be ... national guidance was for staff working with Covid-19 patients to use a standard surgical face mask, also known as a fluid ...

surgical masks to have food and dirt on them," school nurse Erin Pein told "Fox & Friends" Wednesday. "I had a student come to me. He came to the nurse's office and said he couldn't breathe." ...

She’s a school nurse who claims face masks are dangerous ... approach the performance of standard surgical masks in laboratory settings, although some mask alternatives, such as neck fleece ...

Using data collected from 215 nurses who used surgical masks or N95 masks during a two-week period, they found that among the 44 nurses with severe allergy symptoms, nearly 40 percent experienced ...

“A phlebotomist or environmental services worker or nursing assistant who had patient contact—just wearing a surgical mask and not an N95—weren’t being treated as having been expose ...