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As soon as Eileen Horton, 65, got the email from the New Jersey State Nurses Association seeking volunteers to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the retired nurse didn’t hesitate to say [...]

Nurses from every corner of New Jersey are being asked to respond and help combat the ongoing coronavirus outbreak sweeping across the state. School nurses, retired nurses, nursing students [...]

The CDC offers a series of strategies or options to optimize supplies of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators (commonly called “N95 respirators”) in health care settings when there is [...]

Nurses at a New Jersey medical center are paying it forward to their fellow staff members during the COVID-19 outbreak. Chrissy Schroeder works at Morristown Medical Center. She and her other [...]

One New Jersey nurse has been dealing with the physical and emotional fallout of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. She told Patch her story under an agreement of anonymity. Despite the fact that a [...]

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Chief Nursing Officer Debbie Hatmaker, PhD, RN, FAAN, met with President Donald J. Trump to urge the administration to provide a sufficient supply of [...]

“I’m a nurse and in this situation, I am facing this sanitary emergency. I too am scared, but not of going buying groceries. I am scared of going to work. I am scared my mask is not [...]

Nurses always have been there for their patients, and the coronavirus pandemic is no exception. But we can’t give patients what they need if we’re not knowledgeable about what’s going on. Leaders [...]

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may be stressful for people. Fear and anxiety about a disease can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. Coping with [...]

The Institute for Nursing has been monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past few days. Due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and its impact on our guests and the feedback we [...]