2022
DOI: 10.4102/sajcd.v69i2.913
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When uncertainty becomes the norm: The Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital’s Speech Therapy and Audiology Department’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract: Background:In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. Management of this pandemic had significant implications for clinical departments across the world. Healthcare systems were urgently required to reorganise and redesign patient care as well as repurpose staff.Objectives: We will share the lived experience of our response as speech therapy and audiology (STA) clinicians to the COVID-19 pandemic.Method: This study adopted an autoethnographic approa… Show more

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“…Furthermore, as far as challenges to practice are concerned, COVID-19 significantly increased the workload of clinicians (Balton et al, 2022 ; Hlayisi, 2022 ; Khatib & Hlayisi, 2022 ). Over and above the core function of providing clinical care, time devoted to establishing innovative modes of service provision, sourcing required resources that would allow for continuity of service provision during the pandemic, training and upskilling everyone on alternative service provision methods, as well as engagement in the national COVID-19 pandemic management were all added to clinicians’ workloads (Achmat & Gerber, 2022 ; Balton et al, 2022 ; Hlayisi, 2022 ; Karrim et al, 2022 ; Khatib & Hlayisi, 2022 ; Khoza-Shangase, 2022b ; Nagdee et al, 2022 ). Balton et al ( 2022 ) highlighted how such workload challenges were possibly influenced by a lack of or poor application of policies and regulations within the South African context.…”
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“…Furthermore, as far as challenges to practice are concerned, COVID-19 significantly increased the workload of clinicians (Balton et al, 2022 ; Hlayisi, 2022 ; Khatib & Hlayisi, 2022 ). Over and above the core function of providing clinical care, time devoted to establishing innovative modes of service provision, sourcing required resources that would allow for continuity of service provision during the pandemic, training and upskilling everyone on alternative service provision methods, as well as engagement in the national COVID-19 pandemic management were all added to clinicians’ workloads (Achmat & Gerber, 2022 ; Balton et al, 2022 ; Hlayisi, 2022 ; Karrim et al, 2022 ; Khatib & Hlayisi, 2022 ; Khoza-Shangase, 2022b ; Nagdee et al, 2022 ). Balton et al ( 2022 ) highlighted how such workload challenges were possibly influenced by a lack of or poor application of policies and regulations within the South African context.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over and above the core function of providing clinical care, time devoted to establishing innovative modes of service provision, sourcing required resources that would allow for continuity of service provision during the pandemic, training and upskilling everyone on alternative service provision methods, as well as engagement in the national COVID-19 pandemic management were all added to clinicians’ workloads (Achmat & Gerber, 2022 ; Balton et al, 2022 ; Hlayisi, 2022 ; Karrim et al, 2022 ; Khatib & Hlayisi, 2022 ; Khoza-Shangase, 2022b ; Nagdee et al, 2022 ). Balton et al ( 2022 ) highlighted how such workload challenges were possibly influenced by a lack of or poor application of policies and regulations within the South African context. These authors argued that the response of the South African health care system to COVID-19 highlighted that the needs of vulnerable populations were not clearly taken into cognisance when regulations and policies to curb the pandemic were developed.…”
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confidence: 99%
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