The US COVID‐19 crises: facts, science and solidarity
Autor: | Katie Boston-Leary, Kendra Mcmillan, Pamela F. Cipriano, Cheryl Peterson |
---|---|
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Infectious Disease Transmission Patient-to-Professional Well‐Being media_common.quotation_subject education Workload Nurse's Role Racism Injustice 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing COVID‐19 Social Justice Political science Health care medicine Humans Burnout 030212 general & internal medicine Burnout Professional Personal Protective Equipment Personal protective equipment General Nursing media_common Teamwork Government Pandemic 030504 nursing business.industry Public health Uncertainty COVID-19 Public relations Mental health United States Mental Health 0305 other medical science business Nursing and Health Policy Perspectives |
Zdroj: | International Nursing Review |
ISSN: | 1466-7657 0020-8132 |
DOI: | 10.1111/inr.12646 |
Popis: | The United States leads the world in COVID‐19 cases and deaths. The government’s poorly coordinated response has lacked national mandates, failed to deploy adequate personal protective equipment, supplies and testing and devalued advice of science experts. COVID‐19 exposed racial disparities in health care and as protests against racial injustice erupted, nurses have responded to the call to confront racism as a public health crisis. Nurses also suffer from lack of personal protective equipment, burnout, extreme workloads, overwhelming deaths and fear of contracting COVID‐19. While facing danger, nurses have implemented practice changes and fostered new roles and teamwork to provide safer care. Advancing policy to provide personal protective equipment as well as financial and mental health support for nurses is a priority nationally and globally. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Externí odkaz: |