COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
In response to the pandemic, opportunities to learn about timely topics are now widely available at no cost. On May 18, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing will begin a two-week course for nurses on how to provide high quality care during a time of low resources and high uncertainty.
In an essay on the changes that may occur in health care as a result of the current pandemic, Donald Berwick, MD, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, lists choices decision-makers face today as they shape the future of health care.
In a May 7 letter to the White House, Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), thanked President Trump for recognizing nurses’ contributions on the front lines of COVID-19 and urged him to appoint a nurse to the Coronavirus Task Force.
“Nursing’s contributions to improving the public’s health during times of crisis dates back to the days of [Florence] Nightingale, modern nursing’s founder,”
Nurses are making a “monumental difference for patients, families and communities,” wrote Rick Pollack, president and chief executive officer of the American Hospital Association (AHA), as National Nurses Week 2020 got underway