Nursing Human Factor During COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

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.

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Brazilian Nursing Process Research Network contributions for assistance in the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…This fatal situation has caused all healthcare professionals, especially nurses who work directly with sick or quarantined individuals, to face serious physical and psychological problems. Working with protective equipment that restricts breathing and movement makes it difficult to meet basic physiological needs such as eating, drinking, going to the toilet, and sleeping [13][14][15]. In addition, conditions such as limited hospital resources, long working hours, physical fatigue, infection risk, lack of protective equipment, disruption of sleep patterns, loneliness, and being separated from their families cause nurses' mental health also to be at risk [4,8,16].…”