Personal protective equipment can cause feelings of isolation and fear. However, PPE portraits — postcard-sized self-portraits of doctors affixed to their protective clothing — can help physicians connect with patients, researchers wrote.
Shawna Steadman, MS, RN, ACNP, a nurse practitioner and associate professor at the UMass Memorial Medical School's Graduate School of Nursing, told Healio Primary Care that the portraits were initially used “to combat patients’ isolation and fear when seeing clinicians in PPE that resembled alien suits” during the 2014-2016 Ebola
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