To live well through and beyond the pandemic, we need to recognize the moral distress experienced by people, and especially health-care workers.
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An effective oxygen system requires prompt recognition of who needs oxygen, a reliable oxygen supply and safe delivery to those who need it.
Nursing students are 90% female, often mature-age students who are still expected to carry most of the housework and childcare load while they study. Something has to give.
Nurses are not heroes – they are technically expert professional carers with unique skills. And they are struggling.
More patients die if there are fewer nurses available – so the UK must resolve its current shortage.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on another US medical emergency: a serious shortage of nurses.
Social distancing can get tougher in the fall and winter. These simple steps can help keep you and your loved ones healthy.
Nurses are uniquely at risk of COVID-19, and are affected by many of the health inequalities that the pandemic has exposed. But no one is listening to them.
School nurses were already overwhelmed, with hundreds of students and staff in their charge. Now, COVID-19 screenings and testing have become their priority.
Using actors can provide nurses with valuable training dealing with a diverse set of patients.
Comparisons with the second world war are usually unhelpful – but the crisis changed UK nursing for the better. The pandemic offers a similar chance to rethink nursing is provided.
Healthcare practitioners face a difficult situation – they have the right to be protected, but are legally required to treat patients.
A scholar and mother of a young child who is now working at home explores what’s called the ‘work-family conflict’ – and finds that’s the wrong label for the impossible choices faced by parents.
Anti-Blackness lingers in nursing and continues to limit access for Black folks, especially within nursing schools.
Nurses have always been at the forefront during war, epidemics and other times of disaster.
Florence Nightingale, who would have turned 200 today, might be remembered for her work during the Crimean War. But that’s ignoring the 54 years afterwards she spent writing, analysing and agitating.
We need to make sure those brought in to help cope with the pandemic have adequate training to avoid any risks in patient care.
The Lady with the Lamp also did some of her most important work from home.
The NHS workforce reconfiguration so far has been an accountant’s response – designed to save money rather than being based upon actual clinical need.
Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
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Director of the Translational Research and Social Innovation group, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Nursing and Health Services Management, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Nursing , University of Waikato
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Professor of Nursing Workforce Policy, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Nursing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Nursing Policy, King's College London
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Professor of Public Health, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor, Director of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Practice, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Academic Convenor, MAEVe ( Melbourne Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Older Persons' Health Care, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Curtin University
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Practice Education Facilitator, Swansea University