Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)

In this month’s Nursing Outlook, three nurse ethicists argue for substantive reform of institutional processes and systems to avert the physical, emotional and moral stresses nurses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Acknowledging stress and finding ways to work through it is one method to address unwanted behaviors among people working in health care settings who may be experiencing vicarious trauma.
COVID-19 erupted across the nation putting unprecedented stress on hospitals and health systems.
In 2020, identified as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife (a celebration of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday), it seems almost surreal that we would be faced with a pandemic of the novel coronavirus. Nurses, as in the time of Florence Nightingale, provide a pivotal role in infection prevention…
Communication challenges during a crisis are not new to health care in the United States. In fact, over the last 100 years, disasters, including pandemics, served to highlight the vital role of communication to help staff understand, engage and rise to the challenges needed to provide care to our…
This article presents two examples of academic-practice partnerships that continued during the COVID-19 pandemic. These partnerships enabled nursing students to obtain clinical hours despite the decreased census in hospitals created by the pandemic. This experience also yielded recommendations for…
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