Reflections arising from the COVID-19 pandemic

Reflexiones derivadas de la pandemia COVID-19

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2020-06-04T10:47:56Z

2021-04-01T05:10:19Z

2020-04-01

2020-06-04T10:47:56Z

Abstract

While we were drafting the recommendations for the joint contingency plan between the Spanish Society of Intensive Care and Coronary Unit Nursing (SEEIUC) and the Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC), predictions were overtaken by events with regard to the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic. Members informed us of the lack of personal protection equipment (PPE), the rapid provision of improvised ICUs in various hospital areas and the recruitment of nurses to cover shifts. The failure to recognise the specialty of critical care nursing, included in the macro-specialty of medical-surgical nursing and not yet developed, has highlighted the urgent need to learn from our mistakes: specialisation, increase the number of nurses in teams and protect the public health system

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English

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Elsevier

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Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enfi.2020.03.002

Enfermeria Intensiva, 2020, vol. 31, num. 2, p. 90-93

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enfi.2020.03.002

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