COVID-19: Korean nurses' experiences and ongoing tasks for the pandemic's second wave
- 주제(키워드) COVID‐ , 19 , Health Policy , Infectious Diseases , Korea , Nurse Staffing , Nurses , Nursing Policy , Pandemic
- 주제(기타) Nursing
- 설명문(일반) [Kang, Younhee] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Nursing Syst Hlth & Engn, Seoul, South Korea; [Kang, Younhee] Ewha Womans Univ, Grad Sch, BK21 Plus Program, Seoul, South Korea; [Kang, Younhee; Shin, Kyung Rim] Korean Nurses Assoc, Seoul, South Korea; [Shin, Kyung Rim] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Nursing, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 SCIE, SSCI, SCOPUS
- OA유형 Green Published
- 발행기관 WILEY
- 발행년도 2020
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000175469
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/inr.12644
- PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33428228
초록/요약
Nurses are the largest group of healthcare workers in the world, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have been recognized worldwide as frontline warriors working hard to stem suffering, infection rates and deaths. Korean nurses experienced the effects of the pandemic earlier than in most other countries, and the work of our nurses has been recognized as a successful model in responding COVID-19. In this paper, we share the experiences of Korean nurses, including their experiences of workload, acute shortages of staff and equipment and work overload, and suggest ongoing tasks that need to be addressed to combat the pandemic's second wave and other possible waves. Specifically, the nursing issues relating to COVID-19 are critically reviewed and recommendations for each issue are suggested in terms of nursing staffing, practice and policy, as well as health policy.
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