{"id":3661,"date":"2020-04-22T21:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fammed\/chws\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2021-03-12T05:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:27:48","slug":"protecting-frontline-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2020\/04\/22\/protecting-frontline-health-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Frontline Health Care Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/vox-ppe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/><em>The other hospital workers on the front lines of the pandemic<\/em><br \/>\nAs Covid-19 overwhelms several hospital systems around the world, public attention has affixed on doctors and advanced practice providers, like nurse practitioners and physician assistants \u2014 the hospital\u2019s leaders on the ground whose medical plans shape the field of battle.<br \/>\nLess visible but no less important, however, is the army of support staff whose daily exposure to Covid-19 patients \u2014 from changing their clothes to inserting life-saving ventilator tubes \u2014 sometimes exceeds that of the doctors they assist.<br \/>\nIn this VOX article, Bianca Frogner, director of the University of Washington\u2019s Center for Health Workforce Studies, acknowledges that support staff are \u201clower on the totem pole for getting PPE.\u201d Although they are \u201ca critical group\u201d in the fight against Covid-19, she says, they \u201cdon\u2019t get a lot of attention.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2020\/4\/14\/21218956\/hospital-workers-emt-masks-coronavirus-covid-19\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Bianca Frogner quoted by Vox on the need to include health care support staff in planning for personal protection equipment (PPE).  <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fammed\/chws\/protecting-frontline-health-care-workers\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}