Health Professionals Dynamic Role Amid COVID-19: Nursing Perspectives

Abstract

A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a newly discovered virus in 2019 in Wuhan, China. Globally around the world, healthcare professionals (HCP), including nurses, are the front line health workers (FHW), considered as a vital member of the team trying to save several people's lives. Although leading health organizations and scientific papers consistently addressed the HCP challenging role concerning multidisciplinary approaches and support systems, along with evidence-based research implications for delivering the best possible quality care, this review resulted in four primary categories, such as challenges, domains, support systems (code of ethics), and evidence-based synthesis of health policy. A step further, this article will detail the tremendous role of brave healthcare workers, including nurses and pharmacists who proved themselves as health warriors, along with the key issues about the nurses' perspectives on the impact of COVID-19, and to debunk the mixed messages what is being reported every day is a virtual drive for nurses focusing on the significant domains of nursing practices as a motivating factor amid COVID-19.

Exploring the cultural competency of Expatriate Nurses working in Saudi Arabia

“…This project explored the various domains of cultural competencies, such as Awareness, behavior, and practice orientation of nurses working in different units in different hospitals in Saudi Arabia. Our reports revealed and aligned with the evidencebased cultural competency and associated interventions that have shown the enhanced competency in recent years (17) .…”

Healthcare Professionals (Nurses') Perceived Stress and Coping: Amid COVID-19

“…During any healthcare crisis, the hospital resources face scarcity in supplying acceptable personal protective devices. Frontline workers are the most vulnerable sector to get affected without availing the required facilities to protect them from getting infections [2,3]. Besides, they do not benefit from monetary benefits from serving the community in the most critical situation.…”

“…Subsequently, fear about infecting family members, being quarantined away from the family, and continuous shifts without an appropriate rest period would succumb to burnout syndrome [2,16]. Finally, they are more likely to transform into low-level self-confidence and low coping skills [3,17].…”

“…The pandemic situation due to COVID-19 has created unprecedented challenges to healthcare professionals worldwide, particularly physicians, nurses, and emergency health workers [3]. As of October 2020, International Council for Nurses (ICN) confirms that 1500 nurses died among 44 countries, and the fatalities could be around more than 20000 [4].…”

Multidisciplinary Effort and Integrative Preparedness: A Lesson for the Foreseen Multivariate COVID-19 Pandemic Flare-Up

“…8 In general, the need on understanding the COVID-19 pathogenesis, transmission, and treatment is increasing time to time but, the most devastating issue in recent times is the appearance of various multivariate strains which are highly contagious than the original strains and possess significant difficulties in management strategies including vaccination. 2,9 Newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants that are capable of escaping vaccine protection may present a challenge to control the pandemic while the future scenario may be similar to what was observed with vaccines against influenza, where community immunity is seldom expected. 10 The UK B.1.1.7, the South African B.1.351, and the Brazilian B.1.1.28.1 strains are among the emerging new SARS-CoV-2 variants that displayed various types of mutations 11 resulting in resistance against most of the currently approved vaccines.…”