COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning
With millions of people sick with COVID-19 and hundreds of thousands dead, the negative consequences of the pandemic are clear.
In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported early increases in the rate of positive test results for Americans younger than age 25 living in 767 COVID-19 hotspot counties in June and July.
Cynthia Caroselli, PhD, RN, associate healthcare system director for patient services and chief nurse executive at the Veterans Affairs (VA) New York Harbor Healthcare System shared the lessons learned during her organization’s experience at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of…
With the pandemic adding additional urgency to issues surrounding resource allocation, a 2020 report coauthored by Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, AONL CEO and senior vice president and chief nursing officer of the American Hospital Association, was especially timely.
A structured framework for emergency department triage created by physicians at an academic medical center contains recommendations for personal protective equipment use as well as guidance on the disposition of patients suspected of having COVID‐19.
Some nurses do not feel adequately prepared to respond to emergencies, according to Charleen C. McNeill, PhD, RN, an associate professor at East Carolina University College of Nursing in Greenville, N.C. McNeill co-authored a study in the Journal of Nursing Administration, which examined nurses'…
When COVID-19 reached U.S. shores earlier this year, a task force at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. conducted a literature review to plan the hospital’s pandemic response.
Health systems working to calculate their resource needs before a surge in COVID-19 can now avail themselves of a surge planning tool released by UCLA Health. The tool projects the numbers of inpatient beds, ICU beds and ventilators needed over a two-week period when predictions are highly accurate…
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