Nursing Practice in a Pandemic
March 31, 2020
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Over the weekend, we sent a text survey to our members and found that only 13% of the nurses who were exposed to the virus were tested. This is outrageous, and it’s putting frontline healthcare workers at risk. We will continue to demand that local, state, and federal officials make widespread testing available immediately; and we are opposed to any attempt to ration tests, or any policy that will lead to disparities in access to testing, such as the NYC-DOH’s current guidelines.
We also continue to oppose the New York Department of Health’s relaxed quarantine standard, which is putting healthcare workers at risk and contributing to the spread of the virus.