Capturing Accumulated Knowledge and Learning of COVID-19 Pandemic from Front-Line Nurse

Abstract

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.

Appealing to Tacit Knowledge and Axiology to Enhance Medical Practice in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Hermeneutic Bioethical Analysis

“…This has posed an uncertain picture, with dizzying changes, in which the knowledge acquired by health personnel becomes a value-added knowledge that needs to be shared. This knowledge refers above all to the sphere of experiences, for this reason, it is mostly tacit; in order to be shared, it must be first codified and then standardized ( 63 ). Because it can be of great help both to carry out diagnoses and treatment plans in a different way (virtual) ( 64 ) and because it forces to improve the management of shared decisions ( 65 ), it is a type of knowledge that has the ability to promote both evidence-based medicine and patient-centered medicine.…”

“…Because it can be of great help both to carry out diagnoses and treatment plans in a different way (virtual) ( 64 ) and because it forces to improve the management of shared decisions ( 65 ), it is a type of knowledge that has the ability to promote both evidence-based medicine and patient-centered medicine. It can be conducted either at an individual level ( 63 ) or a collective one by strengthening the competencies to work with colleagues as a team, both because it reduces ambiguities ( 63 ) and because of the possibility of alleviating the psychological burden involved in treating patients for Covid-19 ( 66 ). Psychosocial support and enjoying free time are also fundamental ( 66 ), both of which bibliotherapy includes as a way of reflecting and re-signify own actions to extract knowledge that can be capitalized in this very particular context ( 67 ).…”

“…In this sense, specifically with regard to tacit knowledge in terms of the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges refer to (1) adapting and learning a new way of establishing trust with the patient as well as a new way of using resources to perform diagnosis-even efficiency will take a new meaning ( 64 ), and (2) what and how to learn from the whole new experiences the pandemic has posed-the challenge is to capitalize on this new knowledge ( 63 ).…”

“…Although the COVID-19 pandemic has represented a huge challenge for all humanity, in particular with regard to health professionals, it has forced the health specialists to rethink their practice on (1) the limits of the duty to treat or to provide medical care correctly (for instance when their lives are at risk because appropriate conditions do not exist) (68) about (2) new ways of establishing a bond with the patient in virtual care, attending to the needs of the patient in times of uncertainty (65), and (3) how to deal with the psychosocial burden of care and the need for support resources (66,67). In this sense, specifically with regard to tacit knowledge in terms of the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges refer to (1) adapting and learning a new way of establishing trust with the patient as well as a new way of using resources to perform diagnosis-even efficiency will take a new meaning (64), and (2) what and how to learn from the whole new experiences the pandemic has posed-the challenge is to capitalize on this new knowledge (63).…”

An evaluation of critical knowledge areas for managing the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Therefore, knowledge mapping represents a great opportunity to enhance skills and competencies and to improve and facilitate decision-making. Thus, it is essential to develop dynamic knowledge mapping platforms to AAM-Journal of Knowledge Management, DOI: 10.1108/JKM-01-2021-0083 Critical knowledge areas for managing the COVID-19 pandemic help to connect key stakeholders to existing explicit (codified) and tacit (practical) knowledge and facilitate knowledge exchange (Buheji and Buhaid, 2020).…”