Report From Someone Trying to Roll Out Accurate Testing and Reporting at a Huge Public University Many of us wonder why the testing is taking so long to roll out in the U.S., a presumably developed country. One reason is a lack of a centralized health records system,...
Report From an Unemployed Worker I have been getting my health insurance through Covered California, which is a marketplace for buying state subsidized health insurance. Before the crisis, I had a low monthly premium and decent health coverage, since the state...
On April 13, Highland Hospital fired a nurse for wearing a trash bag as a gown. This nurse was forced to do this when he realized that there were less than 20 gowns left to be used by the whole staff for the rest of the week. This nurse also happened to have a wife at...
From a Recent Nursing Graduate There are currently thousands of us recent graduate nurses anxiously looking for our dream job in a hospital in the Bay Area. We knew from the minute we started nursing school that this would be a hard task, given how impacted the job...
Report From a Skilled Nursing Facility I am a new therapist working on-call at a skilled nursing facility in one of the largest cities in the northeast. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and...
