دورية أكاديمية
Nursing strategic pillars to enhance nursing preparedness and response to COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia
| العنوان: | Nursing strategic pillars to enhance nursing preparedness and response to COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia |
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| المؤلفون: | Nabeeha Tashkandi, Maha Aljuaid, Theolinda McKerry, John Alchin, Laura Taylor, Elmer J. Catangui, Rana Mulla, Suwarnnah Sinnappan, Georges Nammour, Aiman El-Saed, Majid M. Alshamrani |
| المصدر: | Journal of Infection and Public Health, Vol 14, Iss 9, Pp 1155-1160 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | COVID-19, Preparedness, Nursing strategies, Pandemic, Saudi Arabia, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: | Background: COVID-19 pandemic caused enormous implications on the frontline staff. The objective was to share our nursing experience in responding to COVID-19 pandemic at a large hospital and its impact on nursing safety and healthcare services. Methods: Six nursing strategic pillars were implemented. Pillar 1: establishing corona command centre. Pillar 2: limiting exposure by virtual care model, strict infection control measures, altered patient flow, active surveillance, and contact tracing. Pillar 3: maintaining sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment. Pillar 4: creating surge capacity by establishing dedicated COVID-19 units and increasing critical care beds. Pillar 5: training and redeployment of nurses and implementing alternate staffing models. Pillar 6: monitoring staff wellbeing, establishing mental health support hotline and clinic, providing hotel self-quarantine, and financial incentives. Results: Out of 5483 nurses, 543 (10%) were trained for redeployment, mainly at acute and intensive care units. After serving 11,623 infected patient including 1646 hospitalizations during the first 9 months of the pandemic, only 385 (7.0%) nurses were infected with COVID-19. Out of them, only 10 (2.6%) required hospitalization, one (0.3%) required ICU admission, and none died. Although the number of patients hospitalized at our hospital during the current pandemic was 17 folds higher than the 2015 outbreak of middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, the hospital administration did not have to close the hospital as they did in 2015. Conclusions: Proactive nursing leadership and implementation of multiple nursing pillars enabled the facility to maintain the safety of nursing workforce while serving large influx of COVID-19 patients. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1876-0341 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034121001829; https://doaj.org/toc/1876-0341 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.06.016 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/77552b1050bd45c2bf35f94ee619b47f |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.77552b1050bd45c2bf35f94ee619b47f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.06.016 |