Terms of Use
We built this hub the way we built the line in 2020 — to support the people who hold the floor at 3am. These terms keep that promise honest: what we share here is general, educational, and offered in good faith, never a stand-in for your own clinician, attorney, or facility protocol.
Terms of Use
Last updated: June 2026.
Welcome to Feed The Line (feedtheline.org). We started as a community effort delivering hot meals to Bay Area hospital loading docks during the COVID-19 surge, and we never stopped caring about the people on the line. This site is the next chapter of that work: a non-commercial resource hub for the well-being and working conditions of healthcare staff. By using this site, you agree to the terms below. They're short, they're plain, and they exist to protect you as much as us.
1. What this site is — and what it isn't
Everything we publish here is general educational information for support and well-being. We write our shift-survival guides, footwear and ergonomics notes, infection-prevention summaries, and breakroom guidance the way a charge nurse hands off advice mid-shift: practical, evidence-aware, and human. But general guidance is not individualized advice.
Nothing on this site is, or is intended to be, a substitute for individualized medical, legal, occupational-health, or institutional-protocol advice. We are not your clinician, your attorney, your employer, or your infection-control department. Always defer to your own qualified professionals and to your facility's official policies, which are written for your specific environment, patient population, and regulatory context.
2. Always consult qualified professionals
If you have a clinical question, a workplace-safety concern, an injury, or a decision that affects patient care, please consult the appropriate qualified professional or your facility's protocols. When our guidance and your institution's policy disagree, your institution's policy wins — every time. Read anything here as a starting point for a conversation with the people responsible for your care and your workplace, not as the final word.
3. Acceptable use
We ask that you use this hub the way it's meant to be used — to support yourself and your colleagues. Please don't:
- Reproduce, republish, or resell our content as your own, or strip our attribution.
- Use anything here to provide clinical, legal, or professional advice to others as if it were authoritative or individualized.
- Attempt to disrupt, scrape at scale, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the site or its systems.
- Misrepresent the site, imply an endorsement or partnership that doesn't exist, or use the Feed The Line name in a way that's misleading.
You're warmly welcome to share links, quote a passage with credit, and pass a guide along to a coworker who's having a rough stretch. That's exactly what this is for.
4. Content ownership
The original content on this site — our written guides, articles, photography, illustrations, brand identity, and the Feed The Line name — is owned by Feed The Line or used with permission, and is protected by copyright and related rights. You may view it, print a copy for your personal or professional reference, and share links freely. You may not republish it commercially, claim it as your own, or build a competing resource from it without our written permission. Where we reference outside guidance, organizations, or research, those belong to their respective owners and we point to them in good faith for your benefit.
5. No warranties, no guarantees
We work hard to keep this hub accurate and current, and we update it as evidence and best practice evolve. Even so, the site is provided "as is." We make no warranty that every detail is complete, error-free, or right for your situation, and healthcare guidance changes. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Feed The Line is not liable for any loss arising from your reliance on general information published here. Your judgment, your clinicians, and your facility's protocols are the safeguards that matter.
6. Changes to these terms
As the hub grows, we may update these terms. When we do, we'll revise the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms. Nothing about our core promise changes: this is a community resource for caregivers, offered freely and without a sales pitch.
7. Reach us
If something here is unclear, out of date, or you'd like permission to reuse a guide, write to us. We read everything, and we still answer the way we did at those 2am loading docks — like people, not a corporation. Visit our Contact page to get in touch.
Caring for the caregivers — from the meals we delivered to the wellness they deserve.