How doctors and nurses help fighting covid- 19 ?
The doctors and the nurses are playing a big role for fighting covid-19.They serve all care for all people.
Doctors and nurses who work in hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units are trained to anticipate the next crisis, and to consider that one day a major pandemic like the 1918 flu could sweep across the world.
But the corona virus has tested those assumptions, and added unforeseen pressures on health care workers, forcing them to reinvent the way they do their jobs.
Families have always been a mainstay in hospital rooms, gathering around a patient’s bedside. But the rules designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 prohibit visitors, turning nurses and doctors into substitute friends and family as well as caregivers.
“Families are helpful to our patients,” said Courtney Hoffbauer , a nurse and director of acute care services at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. "Just them being present (in the rooms) really impacts (them).”
With that familial presence missing, nurses and doctors have taken on that role to varying degrees, spending extra time with patients, holding their hands and trying to ward off loneliness. It’s also led many hospitals to develop innovative ways for families to continue to play a role in a patients’ recovery, Hoffbauer said. Technology has been the great connector.
“One of the things that we learned early on is that it's important for our patients to hear their family's voices, if nothing else,” Hoffbauer said. “So we have put in place where we have a nurse that goes into every single patient's room with an iPad, and families can speak to their loved one.”
If a patient is on a ventilator and can’t talk, this allows them to at least hear a loved one’s voice.
The Medical Center of Aurora has had to adapt to a no-visitors policy too, said Dr. Joseph Forrester, a critical care physician and pulmonologist who works there. The hospital is among those in the metro area that have treated the most COVID-19 patients.
How to protect the well being of healthcare staff in the COVID-19 crisis?
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major toll on people's well being worldwide, as they are having to confront challenges such as social distancing, loneliness and the infectious disease outbreak itself.
In a recent American Psychiatric Association poll, more than one-third of Americans said that the corona virus was having a serious impact on their mental health, and most (59 percent) said it was having a serious impact on their day to day lives.
Healthcare workers are particularly affected. A cross-sectional study of 1257 healthcare workers in 34 hospitals equipped with fever clinics or wards for patients with COVID-19 in China showed that a "considerable" proportion of healthcare workers reported symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and distress. This was especially true of women, nurses, those in Wuhan, and frontline health care workers directly engaged in diagnosing, treating, or providing nursing care to patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
Doctors and nurses revealed to TIME recently that they'd harboured dark feelings owing to fears of spreading the disease to families, frustration about a lack of adequate protective gear, exhaustion and deep sadness for dying patients.
Healthcare managers need to proactively take steps to protect the mental well being of staff
Managers must be frank about the situations staff are likely to face
Staff can be supported by reinforcing teams and providing regular contact to discuss decisions and check on well being
Once the crisis begins to recede, staff must be actively monitored, supported, and, where necessary, provided with evidence based treatments
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