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Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak
BACKGROUND: In December 2019, early cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China. By late January 2020, it was evident that COVID-19 was rapidly spreading and represented a national health emergency. In order to contain the spread of COVID-19, China adopted a centralized treatment plan by appoi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32676299 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2918 |
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author | Wu, XiaoYing Zheng, ShaoYan Huang, JiaJia Zheng, ZeLi Xu, ManQing Zhou, YuHua |
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description | BACKGROUND: In December 2019, early cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China. By late January 2020, it was evident that COVID-19 was rapidly spreading and represented a national health emergency. In order to contain the spread of COVID-19, China adopted a centralized treatment plan by appointing designated hospitals in each region. Shantou Central Hospital is a Grade A Class A general hospital in Guangdong Province. It was appointed as a provincial COVID-19 designated treatment hospital on January 21, 2020, to provide all COVID-19-related treatments for the city of Shantou. The nursing department at Shantou Central Hospital is fully responsible for hospital nursing administration, nursing human resource management, nursing quality management, and all nursing tasks related to hospital medical care, nursing, teaching, scientific research, preventive healthcare, and so on. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the role of nursing management in transforming a general hospital into a designated hospital for treatment of COVID-19 patients. METHODS: We undertook a series of nursing management measures in the strategic phase and the implementation phase. FINDINGS: Through a series of nursing management measures, all COVID-19 patients admitted to our hospital were cured and discharged. All non-COVID-19 patients and staff hospitalized during the same period were not infected with the virus. During this period, our hospital completed 7,466 operations. Hence, our nursing management measures were effective. CONCLUSIONS: Our efficient nursing management system, first of all, effectively mobilized all available manpower; secondly, up-skilled and trained personnel within a very short period of time; thirdly, provided reliable logistical support for front-line protection equipments; and finally, motivated nurses during this very difficult time to make a significant positive contribution to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-73335562020-07-15 Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak Wu, XiaoYing Zheng, ShaoYan Huang, JiaJia Zheng, ZeLi Xu, ManQing Zhou, YuHua Ann Glob Health Article and Review BACKGROUND: In December 2019, early cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China. By late January 2020, it was evident that COVID-19 was rapidly spreading and represented a national health emergency. In order to contain the spread of COVID-19, China adopted a centralized treatment plan by appointing designated hospitals in each region. Shantou Central Hospital is a Grade A Class A general hospital in Guangdong Province. It was appointed as a provincial COVID-19 designated treatment hospital on January 21, 2020, to provide all COVID-19-related treatments for the city of Shantou. The nursing department at Shantou Central Hospital is fully responsible for hospital nursing administration, nursing human resource management, nursing quality management, and all nursing tasks related to hospital medical care, nursing, teaching, scientific research, preventive healthcare, and so on. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the role of nursing management in transforming a general hospital into a designated hospital for treatment of COVID-19 patients. METHODS: We undertook a series of nursing management measures in the strategic phase and the implementation phase. FINDINGS: Through a series of nursing management measures, all COVID-19 patients admitted to our hospital were cured and discharged. All non-COVID-19 patients and staff hospitalized during the same period were not infected with the virus. During this period, our hospital completed 7,466 operations. Hence, our nursing management measures were effective. CONCLUSIONS: Our efficient nursing management system, first of all, effectively mobilized all available manpower; secondly, up-skilled and trained personnel within a very short period of time; thirdly, provided reliable logistical support for front-line protection equipments; and finally, motivated nurses during this very difficult time to make a significant positive contribution to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Ubiquity Press 2020-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7333556/ /pubmed/32676299 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2918 Text en Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article and Review Wu, XiaoYing Zheng, ShaoYan Huang, JiaJia Zheng, ZeLi Xu, ManQing Zhou, YuHua Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak |
title | Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_full | Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_fullStr | Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_full_unstemmed | Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_short | Contingency Nursing Management in Designated Hospitals During COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_sort | contingency nursing management in designated hospitals during covid-19 outbreak |
topic | Article and Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32676299 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2918 |
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