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Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons

BACKGROUND: In the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system faced unprecedented challenges with increased number of patients and limited resources. Managing nursing resource was a major challenge for hospital administration. They had to be on the frontline, but their safety was of paramount importan...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Sruti, Dhaliwal, Navneet, Bhadada, Sanjay, Kumar, Ashok, Sangat, Sumit Kumar, Pandey, Navin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9650431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36388386
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.961308
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author Sharma, Sruti
Dhaliwal, Navneet
Bhadada, Sanjay
Kumar, Ashok
Sangat, Sumit Kumar
Pandey, Navin
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Dhaliwal, Navneet
Bhadada, Sanjay
Kumar, Ashok
Sangat, Sumit Kumar
Pandey, Navin
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description BACKGROUND: In the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system faced unprecedented challenges with increased number of patients and limited resources. Managing nursing resource was a major challenge for hospital administration. They had to be on the frontline, but their safety was of paramount importance. AIM: This study aims to analyze the measures taken for the management and effective engagement of nursing personnel for deployment in the COVID area of the hospital and the exemption trend based on their health status. METHODOLOGY: A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out to analyze the requests of nursing staff received for exemption of duty in COVID patient care areas. These requests were categorized and examined by the medical board constituted for this purpose. Microsoft Excel was used to interpret the results. RESULTS: The study evaluated the health reasons of nursing officers on the basis of which exemption was given for deployment of nursing officers in COVID areas. They were mostly medical reasons (91.1%) and few personal reasons (8.77%). The majority suffered from diseases affecting two or more than two specialties. Out of 376 applications, 223 were exempted, 81 were not exempted, 13 were given short-term exemption, and 26 were shifted to administrative assignments. Thirty-three staff members were referred to an appropriate forum.
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spelling pubmed-96504312022-11-15 Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons Sharma, Sruti Dhaliwal, Navneet Bhadada, Sanjay Kumar, Ashok Sangat, Sumit Kumar Pandey, Navin Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: In the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system faced unprecedented challenges with increased number of patients and limited resources. Managing nursing resource was a major challenge for hospital administration. They had to be on the frontline, but their safety was of paramount importance. AIM: This study aims to analyze the measures taken for the management and effective engagement of nursing personnel for deployment in the COVID area of the hospital and the exemption trend based on their health status. METHODOLOGY: A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out to analyze the requests of nursing staff received for exemption of duty in COVID patient care areas. These requests were categorized and examined by the medical board constituted for this purpose. Microsoft Excel was used to interpret the results. RESULTS: The study evaluated the health reasons of nursing officers on the basis of which exemption was given for deployment of nursing officers in COVID areas. They were mostly medical reasons (91.1%) and few personal reasons (8.77%). The majority suffered from diseases affecting two or more than two specialties. Out of 376 applications, 223 were exempted, 81 were not exempted, 13 were given short-term exemption, and 26 were shifted to administrative assignments. Thirty-three staff members were referred to an appropriate forum. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9650431/ /pubmed/36388386 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.961308 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sharma, Dhaliwal, Bhadada, Kumar, Sangat and Pandey. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sharma, Sruti
Dhaliwal, Navneet
Bhadada, Sanjay
Kumar, Ashok
Sangat, Sumit Kumar
Pandey, Navin
Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
title Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
title_full Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
title_fullStr Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
title_full_unstemmed Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
title_short Nursing personnel management during COVID-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
title_sort nursing personnel management during covid-19 pandemic: an exemption trend in view of health reasons
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9650431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36388386
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.961308
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