COVID-19 Crisis

Coronavirus, caused by COVID-19, is a rapidly developing disease. As this disease continues to expand and engulf communities across the United States, it is critical that healthcare professionals become informed of the national standards of care provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other authorative agencies. In the episode of The Wealthy Nurse Hour I will provide the latest standardized information that is known about the identification, care, and prevention of the disease. In addition as the US fights to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus and cases continue to rise, healthcare workers on the front lines are facing an unprecedented shortage of medical supplies. With severe shortages of N95 face masks, which protect medical staff from infection by airborne particles, the CDC has updated its crisis capacity guidelines to suggest bandanas or scarves as a last resort.