Originally published on March 5, 2021 11:01 am
TX HEALTH OFFICIALS ON GOV MASK ORDER- A top Texas health official is defending Governor Greg Abbott s decision to lift the statewide mask mandate but underscores the importance of face coverings to reduce spreading COVID-19. Doctor John Hellerstedt heads the Department of State Health Services. He told state lawmakers during a hearing this week that he and Abbott are on the same page. So I know the Governor took the steps that he did not to in anyway diminish the use of masks but rather to say that the government itself would play a different role in terms of whether or not it would be against his executive orders.
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TX HEALTH OFFICIALS ON GOV MASK ORDER- A top Texas health official is defending Governor Greg Abbott s decision to lift the statewide mask mandate but underscores the importance of face coverings to reduce spreading COVID-19. Doctor John Hellerstedt heads the Department of State Health Services. He told state lawmakers during a hearing this week that he and Abbott are on the same page. So I know the Governor took the steps that he did not to in anyway diminish the use of masks but rather to say that the government itself would play a different role in terms of whether or not it would be against his executive orders.
Major healthcare providers, hospitals will continue to require masks
Major healthcare providers, hospitals will continue to require masks
For local officials to be able to take action, COVID hospitalizations must be above 15 percent for seven days straight.
AUSTIN, Texas - It’s been a daily struggle for doctors and nurses over the past 12 months. The sheer number of patients, the amount of deaths that our nurses have seen over the last year and especially in the winter time, it’s enough to cause a great degree of burnout and even PTS for nurses, said Serena Bumpus, director of practice with the Texas Nurses Association.
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Joe Flores, NP, JD, has been defending nurses against investigations by the Texas Board of Nursing for several years. Flores, a Corpus Christi attorney and part-time hospice care nurse practitioner, rarely turns away these clients. He feels it s important they have representation if they have a case.
But since the pandemic started, Flores has had to turn away many cases. Demand for his services is up, he says, as nurses are being investigated by the Board even as they struggle to perform their jobs with the added stress of the pandemic.
The nature of the complaints is also different: I have never had [board] reports regarding masks, gowns; this is new, this is particular to the pandemic, said Flores, who is now representing a dozen nurses facing potential discipline. They are overworked, understaffed. But, he added, patients and management just report them and the board opens cases against many of them as a nursing board did recently against a Minneso