Perspectives of nursing directors on emergency nurse deployment during the pandemic of COVID-19: A nationwide cross-sectional survey in mainland China.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9306050 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1365-2834 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09660429 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Nurs Manag
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1993-
    • Subject Terms:
      COVID-19*/epidemiology ; Nursing Staff, Hospital*; China/epidemiology ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
    • Abstract:
      Aims: The aim of this study is to investigate the situation and perceptions of nursing directors about emergency nursing staff deployment in designated hospitals during the pandemic of COVID-19 in mainland China.
      Background: The pandemic of COVID-19 has significantly depleted health care resources, leading to increased burden of nursing care and staffing and exacerbating the crisis in health care facilities. Currently, how to effectively plan and schedule nursing staffing in the pandemic still remains unknown.
      Methods: From 14 July 2020 to 8 September 2020, 62 nursing directors of designated hospitals in mainland China were invited to participate in a cross-sectional online survey for their perceptions of nursing human-resource allocation during the pandemic of COVID-19.
      Results: A total of 55 valid questionnaires were collected, showing that 96.36% of the hospitals had emergency nursing organizations and management systems during the pandemic, 96.36% had well-established scheduling principles for nursing human resources and 54.55% of hospitals had human-resource scheduling platforms. All the hospitals had trained emergency nursing staff in infection control (55, 100%), work process (51, 92.73%) and emergency skills (50, 90.91%). Most of the participants were satisfied with the nursing staffing deployments at their institutions (52, 94.55%). However, more than two thirds of them believed that their human-resource deployment plans need further improvements (39, 70.91%).
      Conclusions: Most of the designated hospitals investigated had established emergency nursing organizations, and management systems, and related regulations for the epidemic. However, the contents mentioned above still need to be further standardized.
      Implications for Nursing Management: The surge of patients in the epidemic was considerable challenge for the emergency capacity of hospitals. In the future, we should pay more attention to the following aspects: building emergency nursing staffing platforms, increasing emergency human-resource reserves, establishing reliable communication channels for emergency response teams, improving the rules and regulations of emergency human-resource management, offering more training and drills for emergency-related knowledge and skills and giving more focus on bio-psycho-social wellbeing of nurses.
      (© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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    • Grant Information:
      72174135 National Natural Science Foundation of China; HXHL20049 West China Nursing Discipline Development Special Found Project, Sichuan University
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: COVID-19; health care rationing; nurse administrators; nursing staff, hospital
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20220411 Date Completed: 20220706 Latest Revision: 20220720
    • Publication Date:
      20240628
    • Accession Number:
      PMC9115130
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/jonm.13627
    • Accession Number:
      35403305