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  1. Nurses at the Front Line of COVID-19: Roles, Responsibilities, Risks

    A global pandemic needs strong nursing staff engagement in clinical management, awareness and knowledge exchange, and public safety. The American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics for Nurses (2015) is the definitive professional conduct norm for the nursing field. Clause 2 of the code specifies that "the sole responsibility of the nurse ...

  2. COVID-19 and How It's Changed Nursing: A Two Year Reflection

    Three nurses share their experiences from the past two years and reflect on how the pandemic has shaped nursing. Credit: Mireya Acierto / Getty Images Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Megan Champion, FNP, cares for patients as a family nurse practitioner in a community health clinic and at the bedside as an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse.

  3. Essay: Determination and Heartbreak Marked Nursing Life During the Pandemic

    May 12, 2021/ COVID-19. Essay: Determination and Heartbreak Marked Nursing Life During the Pandemic. A Cleveland Clinic nurse remembers difficulties and triumphs of working during a year like no other. Kelly Stake, BSN, RN, works at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital on a medical surgical unit that focuses on post-operative patients.

  4. Overview and Summary: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Nurses: Caring for

    The COVID-19 pandemic has called nurses everywhere to have honest and transparent discussions about how our work in the crisis context, and the barriers that prevent us from effectively achieving our responsibilities, is distressing us as human beings. Burnout, trauma, emotional distress, professional grief, and moral suffering have all ...

  5. How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed the Role of Nurses

    The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the need for 1.1 million new RNs for expansion and replacement of retirees, and to address the current nursing shortage. In the current pandemic, nursing shortages are exacerbated by shifting infection surges that take down some working nurses and overwhelm others who are fortunate enough to remain ...

  6. On The Pulse: The Impact of COVID-19 on Nursing

    02/17/21 AT 10:28 AM. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world, locally and globally, and the nursing profession has been one of the most impacted by the changes, the devastation, and the exposure to the disease. Nurses have been on the front lines and in the spotlight, and no one could have predicted how this pandemic would impact our work ...

  7. 14 nurses on life and work during COVID

    14 nurses on life and work during COVID. Colleen Walsh. Harvard Staff Writer. November 2, 2021 long read. Since early 2020, when the pandemic exploded around the world, Massachusetts has seen nearly 19,000 COVID deaths and more than 840,000 cases. If a line graph of hospital admissions over the past 20 months looks like a series of peaks and ...

  8. Nurses Deserve Better. So Do Their Patients.

    The more than 1,140 U.S. nurses who lost their lives in the first year of the pandemic knew the risks to themselves and their families. And yet they stayed in harm's way. They cared for their ...

  9. Pandemic highlights important role of nurses

    The COVID-19 pandemic has shed a spotlight on nurses and reinforced the essential role they have in hospitals and clinics worldwide. Caralise Hunt, an associate professor and associate dean for academic affairs in Auburn's School of Nursing, discusses the spotlight and what Auburn is doing to prepare young people for the future of health care

  10. In the Year of the Nurse, front lines take on pandemic

    The World Health Organization named 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife; and as the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the globe, that designation took on special significance.. Nurses joined the front lines of a battle against a largely unknown, extremely contagious and often deadly disease, tasked with caring for and comforting patients under stressful and oft-changing ...

  11. Pandemic's Impact on the Nursing Profession

    More. The COVID-19 pandemic made an immediate impact on the nursing profession. Some nurses suffered devastating health consequences. Many nurses dealt with excessive on-the-job stress, well ...

  12. A Nurse Is Not Just a Nurse: The Challenges of Nursing During a

    The Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for CommonSpirit Health discusses challenges nurses are facing during the Covid-19 pandemic, predominantly in terms of staffing, burnout, and compassion fatigue and PTSD; how burnout has been a problem in nursing for decades; and involving nurses in the vision for the future of health care delivery.

  13. What the Pandemic Taught Us About the Changing Role of Nurses

    What the Pandemic Taught Us About the Changing Role of Nurses. By Dr. Susan Stone, CNM, DNSc, FAAN, FACNM , President, Frontier Nursing University. Even before the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it was well-known that the U.S. was facing a health care provider shortage. This trend was verified in a June 2020 report by the Association of ...

  14. The Role of Nurses During a Pandemic

    Another role that nurses play during a pandemic is maintaining supplies of medical equipment and protective items such as masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer. These resources can easily become scarce during a crisis, and nurses play a vital role in safeguarding these supplies from theft or hoarding. For example, Wendy Shaw, a nurse in Washington ...

  15. Becoming a Nurse in the Era of COVID-19

    Registered nurses Daniel Ambler and Rose Deocampo graduated from the New Graduate Nurse Transition to Practice Program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becoming a Nurse in the Era of COVID-19. When a nurse is asked why he or she chose to enter the profession, the common answer often revolves around the desire to make a difference.

  16. Post-Pandemic Nursing Shortage: Effects On Aspiring Nurses

    Staffing shortages, paired with a global pandemic, can increase nurse burnout and patient dissatisfaction. A staffing shortage also impacts the hospital's level of reimbursement. Though the pandemic created a massive need for more nurses, it also reduced funding for hospitals, resulting in staff layoffs.

  17. The effect of psychological first-aid virtual education on the

    Disasters have affected the physical and mental health of people around the world. Since nurses are frontlines in disasters, it seems necessary to prepare for this responsibility. This study investigates the effect of psychological first-aid virtual education on the communication skills of nurses in disasters such as COVID pandemic. In a randomized controlled trial, 55 nurses were selected by ...

  18. Patients in India Are Being Taught How to Heal

    Today, India has one doctor for every 834 people, compared with a rate of around 2.4 doctors for every 1,000 people in the United States. But only 80 percent of Indian doctors are allopathic, or ...

  19. Quality dementia care in nursing homes: Lessons from the pandemic

    According to Dr. Unroe, the pandemic highlighted: Need for dementia care specific staff training. Value of telehealth communication. Importance of expansion of family's role in nursing home care ...

  20. Improving dementia care in nursing homes: Learning from the pandemic years

    According to Dr. Unroe, the pandemic highlighted: Need for dementia care specific staff training. Value of telehealth communication. Importance of expansion of family's role in nursing home care ...

  21. Advocating for Better Nursing Home Laws and Regulations

    Since the pandemic began, there has been significant efforts by advocates to create better laws and regulations to protect nursing home residents. The pandemic and its devastating impact on nursing home residents has resulted in many states passing new laws or creating new regulations regarding a variety of areas, including staffing ...

  22. Change in Caffeine Consumption after Pandemic (CCAP-Study) among ...

    (1) Background: The lockdown, imposed to limit the pandemic evolution, impacted the social habits and lifestyle of inhabitants also from many countries other than Italy. Caffeine consumption could be a useful option to improve mood, as the lockdown strongly affected mental health, particularly increasing anxiety and sleep disorders. (2) Methods: It was a cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate ...

  23. Prosecutors drop case against nurse suspected of murdering dozens of

    The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is dropping the case against Theodoor V., a former nurse at the Wilhelmina Hospital in Assen suspected of killing around 20 patients during the Covid-19 pandemic. The extensive criminal investigation did not provide enough evidence to establish that the man committed criminal offenses, the OM said. "The OM will not submit the case to the court, and the ...