Challenges and opportunities for nurses during COVID-19 pandemic
Background: Pandemic of COVID-19 coincided with the year of Nurses and Midwives 2020. In war against invisible that has been ongoing during this pandemic, nurses play crucial role. As of June 2020, more than 600 nurses have lost their lives due to COVID-19. Nursing practice takes patients’ safety a...
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Background: Pandemic of COVID-19 coincided with the year of Nurses and Midwives 2020. In war against invisible that has been ongoing during this pandemic, nurses play crucial role. As of June 2020, more than 600 nurses have lost their lives due to COVID-19. Nursing practice takes patients’ safety at paramount through continuum of testing, quarantine and isolation. Thus, there is need to review challenges that pandemic has posed as well as the avenues of opportunities that it has opened for nurses.
Method: Review of existing literature on nurses, their challenges and opportunities during COVID-19 was done using electronic database. Freely accessible literatures in English language that clearly mentioned on challenges and opportunities of nurses during COVID-19 were included in the study.
Result: One of thechallenges that nurses face during COVID-19 is workforce shortage. With increasing number of people infected with COVID-19, it outstretches the existing nursing health workforce, and disproportionately in the low and middle incomes countries. They are at risk of infection and have high job demand. The incidents of suicide among nurses are representation of physical distress and psychological trauma. Role of nurses in patients care during COVID-19 can be under-rated and stigmatized. Internationally trained nurses and minorities nurses are at increased risk of discrimination. Despite these challenges, COVID-19 puts forward opportunities for nurses on implementing humanistic theory in practice, self-esteem and sharing of real time stories, contingency management and creativity. It opens platform for leading infection prevention measures and advocacy of profession.
Conclusion: Being the pertinent stakeholders in patient care, nurses’ faces different challenges as well as some opportunities. COVID-19 has opened avenues for advocacy of nursing profession to get acknowledged for their dedication, perseverance, high morale and contribution during the pandemic management.
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f21cdd220f8474c875d8a7e7d01ef852023-10-31T15:45:49ZengKarnali Academy of Health SciencesJournal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences2616-00642676-13272020-11-013Challenges and opportunities for nurses during COVID-19 pandemicAmbika Thapa Pachya0Uttam Pachya1Namuna Thapa2Rojina Tandukar3Jyotsna Singh Shrestha4Jeevan Thapa5Bandana Neupane6Madhusudan Subedi7Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal; School of Public Health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, NepalDepartment of General Practice, School of Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal; Gulmi District Hospital, Gulmi, NepalUniversity of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, California, USASchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Sunsari, NepalUniversity of Wollongong, Northfields Ave Wollongong, NSW 2522, AustraliaDepartment of Community Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal; School of Public Health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, NepalNepal Health Sector Support Program, DFID/Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu, NepalDepartment of Community Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal; School of Public Health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal Background: Pandemic of COVID-19 coincided with the year of Nurses and Midwives 2020. In war against invisible that has been ongoing during this pandemic, nurses play crucial role. As of June 2020, more than 600 nurses have lost their lives due to COVID-19. Nursing practice takes patients’ safety at paramount through continuum of testing, quarantine and isolation. Thus, there is need to review challenges that pandemic has posed as well as the avenues of opportunities that it has opened for nurses. Method: Review of existing literature on nurses, their challenges and opportunities during COVID-19 was done using electronic database. Freely accessible literatures in English language that clearly mentioned on challenges and opportunities of nurses during COVID-19 were included in the study. Result: One of thechallenges that nurses face during COVID-19 is workforce shortage. With increasing number of people infected with COVID-19, it outstretches the existing nursing health workforce, and disproportionately in the low and middle incomes countries. They are at risk of infection and have high job demand. The incidents of suicide among nurses are representation of physical distress and psychological trauma. Role of nurses in patients care during COVID-19 can be under-rated and stigmatized. Internationally trained nurses and minorities nurses are at increased risk of discrimination. Despite these challenges, COVID-19 puts forward opportunities for nurses on implementing humanistic theory in practice, self-esteem and sharing of real time stories, contingency management and creativity. It opens platform for leading infection prevention measures and advocacy of profession. Conclusion: Being the pertinent stakeholders in patient care, nurses’ faces different challenges as well as some opportunities. COVID-19 has opened avenues for advocacy of nursing profession to get acknowledged for their dedication, perseverance, high morale and contribution during the pandemic management. http://jkahs.org.np/jkahs/index.php/jkahs/article/view/280Challenges of NursesCOVID-19 PandemicNursesOpportunities of Nurses |
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