From pigtails to paperclips, here’s how nurses are managing ear breakdown from masks.
As healthcare workers across the country are dealing with the frightening reality of caring for patients with dwindling PPE available to them, there is also another sobering challenge they are facing–the long-term, repeated use of PPE is breaking down their skin.
Especially for masks that are designed with loops that fasten around the ears, healthcare workers are experiencing increasing levels of skin breakdown. And just as nurses have been rising to the challenge of working with limited PPE and in near-impossible situations, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that they are also responsible for sharing the creative hacks that have been helping them adapt their PPE to prevent skin breakdown. Read the full article here by Nurses.org
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