JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2021 - Volume CXII

Strategic Utilisation of Nursing Personnel During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Research Article

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ABSTRACT


Pandemic is an entirely different situation which needs special preparation and contingency approach for its management. World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic in month of March 2020. The entire globe was hit by the pandemic and no one knows when it all is going to get over. Nursing professionals have emerged as the frontline warriors in the ght against Covid-19 all around the globe. As we have already entered the seventh month with Covid-19 since March 2019, management of nursing human resource and protecting them from the infection as well as keeping their spirits high has become the greatest challenge. Providing care to the Covid-19 patients as well as non-Covid patients with the same available workforce has become an uphill task for the nurse administrators. Numbers of nursing staff in hospital are limited and same as it was before Covid-19 pandemic. Nurse administrators are expected to ensure proper utilisation of the available nursing manpower, protecting them from the infection and also taking care of their holistic health including the physical, social and the psychological domains. This article emphasises proper utilisation of nursing human resource, proper quarantine facility (in-house and at home), proper nutrition, their safety, proper training, psychological support and counselling of the nursing manpower during Covid-19.

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