Management of ICU nursing teams during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

The healthcare crisis caused by the pandemic has cruelly emphasised the relevance of critical care nurses. Every day the media has reported the demand from different hospitals for the appointment of new professionals. The Spanish Society of Intensive and Coronary Unit Nursing (SEEIUC) also called for the movement of professionals in less affected autonomous communities to offer support to those which were more saturated,1 all the while knowing that there were few options because the healthcare system cuts over the last few years has reduced the critical nursing teams, and the training of nursing experts in critical care requires months of post graduate training.