DNP 825 Discuss a health-related need present in your community

I concur with you that some pandemics such as COVID-19 have led to deaths of many nurses and health care workers. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has limited warning time. As a result, hospital facilities and workers were caught unaware. Limited understanding to the pandemic and unprepared intervention mechanisms exposed healthcare workers to dangerous work environment (Galanis et al., 2021). The public and other players expected health workers to contain the pandemic at all costs. As a result, some contacted the virus but recovered as others died due to respiratory complications associated with the same virus. Limited personal protective equipment (PPEs) at the beginning of the pandemic increased chances of health care workers contacting the virus (Al Thobaity & Alshammari, 2020). Besides, nurses and health care workers were received many patients with COVID-19 symptoms. During the pandemic, nurses felt more stressed, had fewer flow experiences, and were less satisfied with their work, life, work-performance, and well-being than before the pandemic. Limited resting time frustrated many nurses during the peak of this pandemic.

References

Al Thobaity, A., & Alshammari, F. (2020). Nurses on the frontline against the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative review. Dubai Medical Journal, 3(3), 87-92. https://doi.org/10.1159/000509361 Galanis, P., Vraka, I., Fragkou, D., Bilali, A., & Kaitelidou, D. (2021). Nurses’ burnout and associated risk factors during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of advanced nursing, 77(8), 3286-3302. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14839