This is first year hospital employees must get a vaccination or exemption Hospital says it's requiring surgical masks because flu can be transmitted before symptoms show The nurse said the masks ...

and that looser-fitting surgical masks be used for routine care. Nursing unions strongly opposed the relaxed guidelines. Until the change, CDC recommended that health care workers ...

The rules have created a gray area that allows hospitals to instruct staff that in most cases, surgical masks are all that is needed to protect them from the coronavirus, nurses say.

The hospital said there were no N95 masks for them and insisted they wear surgical masks instead, the nurses said , even though other healthcare workers at the hospital were provided N95 masks.

Ten nurses at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica have been suspended after refusing to work inside a coronavirus ward without what they deem adequate protective gear.

This is all our nurses get to protect themselves," added a nurse named Amy Ruth Silverman. "These are single use surgical masks. We're wearing them for days or weeks. We can't save your life if we ...

The agency began recommending that nurses use surgical masks, which don’t provide a barrier to airborne viruses but do shield against droplets. But surgical masks also have started to be ...

Employees who otherwise treat COVID-19 patients receive surgical masks. That matches CDC protocol but leaves nurses like Scott—who has read the research on surgical masks versus N95s—feeling ...

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." ...

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 ...

“We were shocked to learn nurses have been wearing contaminated surgical masks in the workplace,” he said. “It appears some sites acted swiftly to rectify the issue, while others have ...