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Nurse practitioner students as an essential workforce: The lessons of coronavirus disease 2019

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted the education and clinical training of nursing students. Clinical sites shut out students over low equipment supplies, physical distancing requirements, and redeployment of staff. PURPOSE AND METHODS: The purpose of this paper is to highl...

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Autores principales: Intinarelli, Gina, Wagner, Laura M., Burgel, Barbara, Andersen, Robin, Gilliss, Catherine L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33358494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.12.002
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description BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted the education and clinical training of nursing students. Clinical sites shut out students over low equipment supplies, physical distancing requirements, and redeployment of staff. PURPOSE AND METHODS: The purpose of this paper is to highlight a progressive solution to engage nurse practitioner students as part of the COVID-19 response given the disruption of their traditional clinical training environments so that student could continue to matriculate and graduate in a timely manner. FINDINGS: Nurse practitioner students swiftly responded and were deemed an essential part of the nursing workforce. DISCUSSION: Policy implications for advanced nursing practice and education for telehealth and simulation research moving forward is also provided.
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spelling pubmed-78369892021-01-26 Nurse practitioner students as an essential workforce: The lessons of coronavirus disease 2019 Intinarelli, Gina Wagner, Laura M. Burgel, Barbara Andersen, Robin Gilliss, Catherine L. Nurs Outlook Article BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted the education and clinical training of nursing students. Clinical sites shut out students over low equipment supplies, physical distancing requirements, and redeployment of staff. PURPOSE AND METHODS: The purpose of this paper is to highlight a progressive solution to engage nurse practitioner students as part of the COVID-19 response given the disruption of their traditional clinical training environments so that student could continue to matriculate and graduate in a timely manner. FINDINGS: Nurse practitioner students swiftly responded and were deemed an essential part of the nursing workforce. DISCUSSION: Policy implications for advanced nursing practice and education for telehealth and simulation research moving forward is also provided. Elsevier Inc. 2021 2020-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7836989/ /pubmed/33358494 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.12.002 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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