doi:10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11iCOVIDp7057-7072PRIMARY health careCORONAVIRUS diseasesPANDEMICSNURSINGLONGITUDINAL methodOBJECTIVE: To describe the perception of nurses about the effects of the pandemic on Primary Health Care. METHODS: Qualitative stu...
COVID-19NursesPatientsCaring needsQualitative researchCOVID-19 is a new disease affecting and killing a large number of people across the world every day. One way to improve health care for these patients is to recognize their needs. Nurses, as a large population of health care staff, can ...
These are all, indeed, problems and may explain some of public’s reaction.Yet these descriptions grossly understate the lived reality for most of those affected. When I speak with individuals who have lost a child, parent or spouse because of what they perceive as an unresponsive and uncaring...
Results: A total of 844 HCW responded to the survey. Their average age was 40.4 ± 9.5 years, 40.3% were nurses, 58.2% had direct patient contact, and 77.3% were living with others. The majority of participants (72.1%) had overall concern scores of 55 or less out of a maximum score ...
Avoiding cross-infection from patients along with effective care delivery can be achieved if the healthcare workers (including physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other medical staff) have a positive attitude towards the disease and better precautionary practices against the spread of COVID-19 [6]. ...
What about the care nurses would you highlight at this time? And about the rest of the health staff? Patient care What would you highlight with regard to the care given to COVID-19 patients? Do you think this situation somehow changed the care of the patients? The interviews were ...
A study of the validity of the content was carried out by eight experts; no other psychometric properties were evaluated. The items whose positive responses obtained higher scores were those referring to the tone with which the nurses addressed patients [with respect and without using nicknames], ...
However, there is a lack of understanding about the mediating effect of health literacy on PI and SM in a non-homogenous population like Saudi Arabia. As such, primary healthcare nurses who have constant interaction with the outpatients have difficulty addressing self-medication. This study aimed ...
Healthcare workers (H·C·W.s) are at the frontline of the battle against COVID-19; they have a higher risk of contracting the infection rather than the general population [3]. Furthermore, due to the heavy workload, H·C·W.s suffer from excessive burnout in this unpredictable situatio...
the ways that physicians were vulnerable, suggesting that people who were not willing to make these sacrifices were not going into medicine for the “right reasons.” Discussing a news segment that interviewed doctors and nurses after a long shift working with COVID patients, one student recalled...