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A major concern among health care experts is a shortage of N95 filtering facepiece respirators during a pandemic. If the supply of N95 filtering facepiece respirators becomes limited, reusable elastomeric half-mask respirators (EHMRs) may be used to

Journal of Research in Nursing, Volume 28, Issue 6-7, Page 401-415, November 2023. Background:The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented upheaval for healthcare systems globally. Rapid changes in the way nurses were asked to work brought about many

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 80, Issue 3, Page 977-992, March 2024.

The threat of emerging infectious diseases has highlighted the need for effective gowns to protect health care workers and patients. Although studies identified end user issues with the physical performance of gowns, the literature that evaluates the

Throughout the current pandemic, a severe respiratory tract infection in humans resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spread by aerosol droplets 1 from infected persons, and fomites on common touch surfaces have both been confirmed indirectly 2

A human death from rabies is a tragic but rare thing in the United States and most developed nations. It's just as tragic but sadly common in parts of the world where some 3 billion people are at risk of being bitten by a rabid dog.

Maternal health setbacks in many parts of the world have contributed to the worrying finding that a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth around every two minutes, UN agencies said on Thursday. 

Colombia has experienced a 4-fold increase overall in microcephaly following the Zika virus outbreak in 2016, according to a study published today in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This preliminary report on Zika virus disease and

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.