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Episode 17: The Inability to Breathe: The Hidden Toll of Wearing PPE for Nurses During COVID-19
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The Inability To Breathe is today's podcast episode that discusses the impact of wearing heavy-duty PPE for long periods on healthcare workers, especially nurses, who have been dealing with the aftermath of the pandemic.
You will understand PPE's short- and long-term physiological consequences on nurses, including its impact on their vital signs and the likelihood of side effects such as headaches, earaches, and welts.
However, this isn't merely a tale about PPE's material effects. It's also about how stressful it is for frontline nurses to make life-or-death choices when trying to get enough air.
Tune in to hear the experiences of real nurses and find out more.
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They are anchors.
Written in the after,
after the shift,
after the silence,
after the moment you wondered if you could still keep going.
This space isn’t loud.
It doesn’t shout advice.
But if you let it,
it might steady something in you.
A small pull toward the part of you
that still believes in why you began.
Not because it’s easy.
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