This paper explores the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on nurses capacity of delivering services to infected patients with minimal risks. The role of nursing during the first four months since the outbreak of the COVID-19 is reviewed. The nursing, both preventive service and response preparedness are evaluated along with their human factor in such a crisis are evaluated. Then the researchers argue about the importance of human factor tools and how they could impact the different challenges and risks that the nurses are going through during the COVID-19 pandemic at various stages, till the time of this paper. A specific framework is exploited, and its implications and limitations are discussed. This research makes two main contributions. From a theoretical perspective, it sheds light on how specific dimensions of human factor could help to raise the capacity of the nurses and their availability, therefore their reliability during a dynamic and complex pandemic as COVID-19. From a practical implication, this study could help prepare nurses for the coming pandemics with better overall productivity effectiveness that would lead to less nurses suffering, beside minimisation of risks and most of all deaths. Future research may extend the present study and test the various propositions made, notably through alternative data collection methods.

The novel virus zoonotic virus of COVID-19 pandemic brought new waves of value-added knowledge to all health professionals due to the type and amount of unprecedented challenges they faced in just a few months since the early of 2020. Since most of the healthcare staff are nurses, this value-added knowledge needs to be captured in the right time and then transferred, or retrieved, or reconstructed to a global knowledge that could be shared for the benefit of better global preparedness. This paper investigates the type of nurses COVID-19 knowledge accumulated and then suggests through a framework way of dealing with it. The main limitation of this paper is that it is yet to be tested and refined in a different environment. The paper brings many implications among most important is that it opens a dialogue for the importance of the type of COVID-19 knowledge that needs to be utilized among health workers to the benefit of the world.