COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning
This month’s Nursing Outlook highlights a collaboration at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), which engaged nurse practitioner
Doing the most possible with limited resources is the subject of a recent webinar available on-demand from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its Acute Hospital Care at Home program in November to increase the capacity of the health care system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asking asymptomatic COVID-exposed staff to work and using 36-hour shifts are among the strategies hospitals have employed to cope with severe nurse staffing shortages during the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adequate staffing, sufficient protective equipment, more emotional support and a request administrators spend time shadowing nurses are among the local solutions proposed by nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A July survey of 1,824 nurse leaders from AONL and Joslin Marketing identified the lack of a playbook, shortage of personal protective equipment and supplies, ever-changing information, changes in culture dynamics and financial impact as the top challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.