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Commentary
Nursing issues
Patient safety during the COVID-19 pandemic: learning from what goes right facilitates future safety improvements
  1. Lina Bergman1,
  2. Ann-Charlotte Falk2
  1. 1 Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  2. 2 Department for Health Promoting Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden
  1. Correspondence to Dr Lina Bergman, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; lina.bergman{at}ki.se

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103633

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    Commentary on: Stayt LC, Merriman C, Bench S, et al. 'Doing the best we can': Registered Nurses' experiences and perceptions of patient safety in intensive care during COVID-19. J Adv Nurs. 2022 Oct;78(10):3371–3384. doi: 10.1111/jan.15419. Epub 2022 Aug 20.

    Implications for practice and research

    • To support nurses’ resilience and enable safe care delivery, it is vital to facilitate effective teamwork and peer-support, and implement safe communication strategies.

    • When the demand of intensive care unit (ICU) exceeds available resources, organisations must adapt, which includes reviewing nursing activities, support continued learning and, when appropriate, reorganise care delivery.

    • Future research should focus on the consequences of fragmentation of nursing care for patients recovery, and the long-term psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for the nursing workforce.

    Context

    A surge of ICU that far exceeded available resources emerged worldwide during the outbreak of …

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    Footnotes

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.