Determining Nursing Education Needs During a Rapidly Changing COVID-19 Environment

Abstract

Note to readers: There is little empirical evidence to guide management of COVID-19. However, with 80,000 new cases being confirmed daily and the rate still increasing, clinicians taking care of patients with COVID-19 need guidance now. We convened an international task force of clinicians from academic centers on the frontline of COVID-19 management to make consensus suggestions on controversial topics. The suggestions are based upon scarce direct evidence, indirect evidence, and clinical observations. The goal is to improve outcomes and facilitate research by standardizing care. The suggestions provided in this document do not constitute official positions of the American Thoracic Society or the institutions of the participants, and they should never be considered mandates as no suggestion can incorporate all potential clinical circumstances. The suggestions are interim guidance and will be reevaluated as evidence accumulates.

Sometimes enough is enough: Nurses’ nonlinear levels of passion and the influence of politics

“…In line with Meyer et al (2010), we posit that when POPs are high (vs low), the situation is ambiguous and weak (vs structured and strong), leading to greater (vs lesser) deviations in work passion. We focus on POPs as a contextual factor because of their relevance in uncertainty-inducing contexts (Hochwarter, 2012) like nursing (Prior et al, 2020).…”

Examining the Associations between Personal Protective Equipment, Training, Policy, and Acute Care Workers’ Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Education is seen as a core responsibility for infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals and a key strategy for facilitating behavior change towards practices that reduce transmission of infectious diseases [17,18]. Within the context of the pandemic, the importance of educating workers regarding new COVID-related practices has been emphasized in several studies [19,20]. These studies take the pragmatic view that training helps bring workers up to date on the necessary IPC practices; however, it is also possible that an additional benefit of training is that providing workers with crucial information about how to protect themselves from COVID-19 may also reduce their stress.…”