Open AccessThrough Their Eyes
Author(s) -
Riley Moore,
Alexandra Hayward,
Kellee Necaise
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of nursing care quality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.554
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1550-5065
pISSN - 1057-3631
DOI - 10.1097/ncq.0000000000000584
Subject(s) - personal protective equipment , medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , isolation (microbiology) , economic shortage , health care , compliance (psychology) , infection control , medical emergency , emergency medicine , disease , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , outbreak , psychology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , biology , economic growth
Personal protective equipment (PPE) plays a critical role in protecting health care workers (HCWs). During the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, shortages of PPE supplies drastically changed the way PPE was obtained and used by HCWs.