Recently, health authorities around the United States are now allowing nurses and others infected with the COVID virus to work provided they are asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms of the disease.  Previously, infected healthcare workers had been quarantined regardless of symptoms. It is absolutely crazy that hospitals would allow people who test positive for COVID to return to work only because the facilities are short-staffed!  Nurses must remove their masks to eat or drink and should … [Read more...]

There is a new trend sweeping the nation called “hospital-at-home” which are hospital organizations that provide hospital level care in the patient’s home as a full substitute for acute hospital care. Nurses are up in arms about this because they believe that this will decrease the need for nurses in the hospital setting while putting those getting the home care at risk.  Proponents say this provides more nurses in facilities where the hospital-at-home solution will not work. According to … [Read more...]