"Protecting our patients is our highest priority, but it becomes much harder when we don't have the safe protections," one nurse said.
Nurses at hospitals in multiple states are protesting what they describe as one of the nation's largest hospital chains'"lack of preparedness" amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Some nurses at HCA hospitals have reported that they have had to work without proper protective equipment and are told to unsafely reuse masks. Nurses at Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, Florida, said they were told they could not wear masks while working because it"scared the patients," according to Jean Ross, a registered nurse and president of National Nurses United.
"Protecting our patients is our highest priority, but it becomes much harder when we don't have the safe protections which puts us in danger of becoming infected," Angela Davis, a registered nurse who works in a unit dedicated to treating coronavirus patients at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, said in a statement.
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