COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning

To investigate the effectiveness for African American nurses of a leadership development collaboration between an urban baccalaureate nursing program and a large health care system, the authors of a qualitative analysis conducted in-depth interviews with 19 program participants.
As Florida’s population grew by 2.4 million over the last decade, the state’s per capita public health budget shrunk by 41%, fueling the surge of COVID-19, according to a recent article in Modern Healthcare.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the advanced practice leadership team at Emory Healthcare redeployed its nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to create alternative care models.
Reports this week about three individuals reinfected with the coronavirus raised concerns about long-term immunity following COVID-19 and the potential effectiveness of vaccines against the disease.
The absence of nursing representation on the White House Coronavirus Task Force and most state and local response teams underscores nurses’ frequent exclusion from decision-making tables write two UCLA nurses in a recent op-ed published by The Hill.