Our country’s healthcare workers are currently facing an unprecedented personal protective equipment (PPE) shortage.

Many of my friends and fellow nurses, and essentially most healthcare workers may not be given PPE at all, or are being given rationed PPE and told to reuse it until it is visibly soiled. Standard procedure is to use PPE once when entering the room and discard it each time, doing this whenever a worker enters/exits a patient room, and between patients.



Adequate PPE is just simply not available, and what is available has in many cases been diverted from local hospitals to the federal government, making current supplies dwindle further and need to stretch much more than they ever should. This leaves nurses and front line healthcare workers unable to protect themselves in order to keep doing our jobs to help and serve our communities.



Healthcare workers without proper PPE is the equivalent of police officers heading on shift, or soldiers being deployed during active wartime, without kevlar. With nothing to protect them from the unseen threat of being shot and rendered helpless and useless in their roles to protect others at any minute. All it takes is one single droplet from a sick patient and a healthcare worker can become infected... and because one can carry the virus and not be symptomatic, they can pass it on to tens, if not hundreds of others in the community unknowingly. This will further tax the healthcare system, and eventually decrease the number of healthcare professionals able to care for the sick due to being sick themselves.



So many generous people in our community have been able to make masks for hospitals and healthcare facilities, and I’m thankful for that. There is still a huge need for face shields.



I’m raising money in order to be able to purchase supplies and materials so that more 3d-designed and printed face shields can be made and distributed to local healthcare workers.

Currently, 12 face shields are able to be produced daily. They are easily able to be sanitized and used between patients, so that’s 12 more healthcare workers per day who are that much more protected and able to continue serving the community. With additional supplies, 36 or more face shields could be produced daily, saving potentially hundreds of lives by reducing the probability that a healthcare worker could become infected and pass the virus along to others or become sick themselves.



As a nurse, this is something I’m really passionate about. I 100% signed up to care for others, to help heal them and advocate for them, and I wouldn’t trade that for the world. But I didn’t sign up for that at the expense of my own wellbeing, or anyone else’s, and my colleagues didn’t either.



Your donation will allow supplies and means to produce protection for our healthcare workers to be purchased. This is completely NOT FOR PROFIT and all PPE will be DONATED FREE OF CHARGE to healthcare workers and facilities in need in our local communities.







If you have a need for face shields, please contact me at: [email redacted], or via fb message (my profile is Steffany MH).