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San Diego Nurse Talks About Safety Equipment Shortages, Stress On Health Workers

By Jade Hindmon / KPBS Midday Edition Co-Host,  John Carroll / General Assignment Reporter & Anchor
Published March 18, 2020 at 11:24 AM PDT
This story was published more than 4 years ago.
A Scripps Health nurse fielding a call about the coronavirus at the Scripps call center on March 13, 2020.
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A Scripps Health nurse fielding a call about the coronavirus at the Scripps call center on March 13, 2020.
San Diego Nurse Talks About Safety Equipment Shortages, Stress On Health Workers
Being a nurse is a stressful job in the best of times. But the profession of nursing is even more difficult in the age of coronavirus. A local nurse talks about how they're coping and how the general public can help.
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They are the tip of the spear when it comes to health care. But the battle nurses and health care workers are fighting in the age of coronavirus has taken the challenge to a new level.

It can be overlooked, with coronavirus constantly in the news, but hospitals are still doing what they always do - caring for people with health problems that are not virus-related.

With all this added stress, how are nurses coping in these most stressful of times? It's a question Midday took up with UC San Diego La Jolla Medical Center nurse Elizabeth Jones. She spoke in her capacity as a member of the California Nurses Association.

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RELATED: Scripps Health Launches Nurse Hotline For COVID-19

KPBS did reach out to the Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties for a comment, but we have not heard back from them at the time of this writing.

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Jade Hindmon
Jade Hindmon is KPBS Midday Edition co-host. Prior to making San Diego home, Jade worked in markets across the Southeast and Midwest, building a network of sources to tell the stories of people in each community. She worked as a multimedia journalist and anchor at WRTV in Indianapolis. While there, she launched “The Weekend Edition of Good Morning Indiana” and generated breaking news content for both broadcast and digital platforms. Prior to Indianapolis, she was an anchor and multimedia journalist at FOX Carolina in Greenville, SC. As part of that Emmy Award winning team, she covered elections, landed exclusive interviews, and interviewed presidential candidates. Jade also had the opportunity to cover international news and was able to travel to South Africa during the 2010 World Cup. Jade is a three-time Emmy nominee, a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Finalist, and the recipient of a South Carolina Associated Press Award. She is a proud graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
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John Carroll is a general assignment reporter and anchor at KPBS. He loves coming up with story ideas that are not being covered elsewhere, but he’s also ready to cover the breaking news of the day.
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