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Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection
This study examined the pandemic measures taken by nursing leaders to cope with COVID-19 at a nursing home in Singapore. The pandemic has affected over 215 countries, sparking a series of containment and pandemic measures by governments and healthcare organizations worldwide. Long-term care faciliti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010334 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010075 |
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author | Goh, Hongli Sam Tan, Vivian Lee, Chen-Na Zhang, Hui Devi, M Kamala |
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description | This study examined the pandemic measures taken by nursing leaders to cope with COVID-19 at a nursing home in Singapore. The pandemic has affected over 215 countries, sparking a series of containment and pandemic measures by governments and healthcare organizations worldwide. Long-term care facilities are especially vulnerable to the pandemic, but little has been reported about the nursing homes’ measures in handling the pandemic. The present study used Morley’s (2014) three-stage critical reflection method to review meeting minutes, organizational emails, and government advisories on the COVID-19 pandemic measures undertaken by nursing leaders at a nursing home in Singapore between January and June 2020. The pandemic measures were broadly classified into four groups: (1) infection surveillance and containment measures; (2) ensuring continuity in clinical care and operational support; (3) resource and administrative coordination; and (4) staff training and development. Nurses have played a vital role in the fight against COVID-19 by ensuring continuity in patient care and demonstrating clinical leadership in pandemic efforts. This study proposes a useful nursing pandemic structure that outlines a set of functions and measures required for handling a pandemic and that can be applied to various medical emergencies and contingencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-87511442022-01-12 Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection Goh, Hongli Sam Tan, Vivian Lee, Chen-Na Zhang, Hui Devi, M Kamala Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study examined the pandemic measures taken by nursing leaders to cope with COVID-19 at a nursing home in Singapore. The pandemic has affected over 215 countries, sparking a series of containment and pandemic measures by governments and healthcare organizations worldwide. Long-term care facilities are especially vulnerable to the pandemic, but little has been reported about the nursing homes’ measures in handling the pandemic. The present study used Morley’s (2014) three-stage critical reflection method to review meeting minutes, organizational emails, and government advisories on the COVID-19 pandemic measures undertaken by nursing leaders at a nursing home in Singapore between January and June 2020. The pandemic measures were broadly classified into four groups: (1) infection surveillance and containment measures; (2) ensuring continuity in clinical care and operational support; (3) resource and administrative coordination; and (4) staff training and development. Nurses have played a vital role in the fight against COVID-19 by ensuring continuity in patient care and demonstrating clinical leadership in pandemic efforts. This study proposes a useful nursing pandemic structure that outlines a set of functions and measures required for handling a pandemic and that can be applied to various medical emergencies and contingencies. MDPI 2021-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8751144/ /pubmed/35010334 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010075 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Goh, Hongli Sam Tan, Vivian Lee, Chen-Na Zhang, Hui Devi, M Kamala Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection |
title | Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection |
title_full | Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection |
title_fullStr | Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection |
title_full_unstemmed | Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection |
title_short | Nursing Home’s Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Reflection |
title_sort | nursing home’s measures during the covid-19 pandemic: a critical reflection |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010334 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010075 |
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