Nurses’ experiences of health concerns, teamwork, leadership and knowledge transfer during an Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Holmgren, Jessica; Paillard-Borg, Stéphanie; Saaristo, P.; Strauss, Esther

doi:10.1002/nop2.258

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“…To support healthcare workers, many facilities have now initiated staff debriefings and are offering other psychological support services. During the Ebola virus disease outbreak, it was reported that provision of staff debriefings and other support services was critical for the safety and well-being of staff and helped to reduce distress and anxiety [65] , [66] . While the majority of respondents in our study did not use these services, a handful from each emergency clinician group did state that they found the staff debriefings to be ‘slightly to moderately useful’.…”

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Emergency clinicians’ knowledge, preparedness and experiences of managing COVID-19 during the 2020 global pandemic in Australian healthcare settings

Sotomayor-Castillo

Nahidi

et al. 2021

Australasian Emergency Care

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Background Emergency clinicians have a crucial role during public health emergencies and have been at the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined the knowledge, preparedness and experiences of Australian emergency nurses, emergency physicians and paramedics in managing COVID-19. Methods A voluntary cross-sectional study of members of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and the Australasian College of Paramedicine was conducted using an online survey (June-September 2020). Results Of the 159 emergency nurses, 110 emergency physicians and 161 paramedics, 67.3-78% from each group indicated that their current knowledge of COVID-19 was ‘good to very good’. The most frequently accessed source of COVID-19 information was from state department of health websites. Most of the respondents in each group (77.6-86.4%) received COVID-19 specific training and education, including personal protective equipment (PPE) usage. One-third of paramedics reported that their workload ‘had lessened’ while 36.4-40% of emergency nurses and physicians stated that their workload had ‘considerably increased’. Common concerns raised included disease transmission to family, public complacency, and PPE availability. Conclusions Extensive training and education and adequate support helped prepare emergency clinicians to manage COVID-19 patients. Challenges included inconsistent and rapidly changing communications and availability of PPE.

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Emergency clinicians’ knowledge, preparedness and experiences of managing COVID-19 during the 2020 global pandemic in Australian healthcare settings

Sotomayor-Castillo

Nahidi

et al. 2021

Australasian Emergency Care

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“… Evans, 2004 ) and female leaders to more frequently use the prestige strategy (cf. Holmgren et al, 2019 ). Indeed, female leaders in a forager-horticulturalists society in Ethiopia showed high prestige but low dominance, whereas male leaders were high on both prestige and dominance ( Garfield and Hagen, 2020 ).…”

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Pandemic Leadership: Sex Differences and Their Evolutionary–Developmental Origins

Luoto

Varella

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global societal, economic, and social upheaval unseen in living memory. There have been substantial cross-national differences in the kinds of policies implemented by political decision-makers to prevent the spread of the virus, to test the population, and to manage infected patients. Among other factors, these policies vary with politicians’ sex: early findings indicate that, on average, female leaders seem more focused on minimizing direct human suffering caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, while male leaders implement riskier short-term decisions, possibly aiming to minimize economic disruptions. These sex differences are consistent with broader findings in psychology, reflecting women’s stronger empathy, higher pathogen disgust, health concern, care-taking orientation, and dislike for the suffering of other people—as well as men’s higher risk-taking, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and focus on financial indicators of success and status. This review article contextualizes sex differences in pandemic leadership in an evolutionary framework. Evolution by natural selection is the only known process in nature that organizes organisms into higher degrees of functional order, or counteracts the unavoidable disorder that would otherwise ensue, and is therefore essential for explaining the origins of human sex differences. Differential sexual selection and parental investment between males and females, together with the sexual differentiation of the mammalian brain, drive sex differences in cognition and behavioral dispositions, underlying men’s and women’s leadership styles and decision-making during a global pandemic. According to the sexually dimorphic leadership specialization hypothesis, general psychobehavioral sex differences have been exapted during human evolution to create sexually dimorphic leadership styles. They may be facultatively co-opted by societies and/or followers when facing different kinds of ecological and/or sociopolitical threats, such as disease outbreaks or intergroup aggression. Early evidence indicates that against the invisible viral foe that can bring nations to their knees, the strategic circumspection of empathic feminine health “worriers” may bring more effective and humanitarian outcomes than the devil-may-care incaution of masculine risk-taking “warriors”.

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“…More recently, during a MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, MERS-CoV) outbreak in 2012 successful management was retrospectively identified to hinge on teamwork, collective leadership and collaborative management (Al Knawy et al, 2019). Finally, experience during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014 highlighted the importance of team training among healthcare workers for clarifying roles, responsibilities, and rules of engagement under conditions of extreme pressure (Holmgren et al, 2019). The extent to which lessons learned from past healthcare emergencies have been applied to current health service responses to COVID-19 remain to be seen.…”

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Interprofessional working during the COVID-19 pandemic: sociological insights

Goldman

Xyrichis

2020

Journal of Interprofessional Care

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Nurses’ experiences of health concerns, teamwork, leadership and knowledge transfer during an Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Cited by 20 publications

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Emergency clinicians’ knowledge, preparedness and experiences of managing COVID-19 during the 2020 global pandemic in Australian healthcare settings

Emergency clinicians’ knowledge, preparedness and experiences of managing COVID-19 during the 2020 global pandemic in Australian healthcare settings

Pandemic Leadership: Sex Differences and Their Evolutionary–Developmental Origins

Interprofessional working during the COVID-19 pandemic: sociological insights

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