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Respiratory protection for health professions students must be addressed in light of lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Part of: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

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Elizabeth L. Beam*
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University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing, Omaha, Nebraska
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Author for correspondence: Elizabeth Beam, E-mail: ebeam@unmc.edu
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Abstract

One of the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic put before health professions programs in the United States was how to keep students clinically in patient care. With years of impact from coronavirus and growing numbers of variants, a long-term solution to respiratory protection for health professions students is needed.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 43 , Issue 12 , December 2022 , pp. 1932 - 1933
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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