This book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being. Nurses are essential front-line clinicians across all health care settings and in every nation. The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARs-CoV-2 virus has affected children, adults, and communities within and across all societies. Nurses, too, have contracted the virus and died from the disease. They have also seen their colleagues, family members, and friends hospitalized or in intensive care units struggling to survive. Nursing’s professionalism and disciplinary resolve to care for patients and families amidst confusion, misinformation, and shifting guidelines has been called “heroic” by the public. How much risk should nurses be expected to accept during a pandemic? How do nurses help patients and families find comfort and dignity at the end-of-life? How do we help nurses who are suffering from moral distress and mental health concerns from what they have seen, been asked to do, or are unable to provide? And, how does society move forward from a pandemic that has challenged our basic ethical principles of justice and what is “fair, good and right” in caring for those who need care, including the most vulnerable and nurses themselves? This book addresses these and other ethical concerns that nurses are facing in their day-to-day clinical practice; experiences shared with patients, families, and colleagues. Although this book was written while the pandemic was still raging across the United States and globally, the events needed to be told as they were unfolding. This book helps us to learn from both the successes and failures that are affecting so many across the globe, including those on whom the public relies on to provide quality, compassionate, and expert care when they are sick: nurses.
This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down -- and how 2021 is going.
Give nurses parking passes for your facility —no nurse should ever have to pay to park, what the fuck nonsense is that? ... But don't you dare roll your shit downhill onto floor nurses—they've already got enough going on. If you can't ...
This guide provides a summary of key nursing practices and established guidelines necessary to provide care to the spectrum of patients with COVID-19.
This issue reflects the work and outcomes that stemmed from necessity by nurses and other health care partners to respond to the needs of patients during this extraordinary and challenging time in history.
The 2020 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe focuses on the impact of the COVID‐19 crisis.
Nurses represent the highest number of healthcare workers globally and have played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Infection -- Risk Factors -- Impact on Healthcare Workers and Hospitals -- Impact on Primary Care and Specialty Care -- Telemedicine -- COVID-19 Truths, Lies and Consequences -- Persistent Medical Problems -- The Way Forward.
Sheltee Felton is a Medical ICU RN, and she has experienced the gratification and grief that is inevitable within healthcare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Nurse Sheltee faced the deathly realities of COVID-19 with courage and grace.
Untold Stories of Nurses: The Covid-19 Pandemic
Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it.