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Adult nursing
Preparing ward nurses for intensive care units during a state of emergency: an example from COVID-19 pandemic
  1. Rabiye Güney
  1. Hamidiye Faculty of Nursing, Child Health and Diseases Nursing, University of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Assistant Professor Rabiye Güney, Hamidiye Faculty of Nursing, Child Health and Diseases Nursing, University of Health Sciences, 34668 Istanbul, Turkey; rabiye.guney{at}sbu.edu.tr

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2021-103491

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    Commentary on: Tang CJ, Lin YP, Chan EY. ‘From expert to novice’, perceptions of general ward nurses on deployment to outbreak intensive care units during the COVID-1919 pandemic: A qualitative descriptive study. J Clin Nurs. 2021 Aug 31. doi: 10.1111/jocn.16029

    Implications for practice and research

    • Nurses who are assigned to intensive care units (ICUs) without adequate training due to a pandemic or any disaster need to be supported both in the learning process and emotionally.

    • Training programmes and standards should be developed and tested with experimental studies in order to provide intensive care education in the most effective and fastest way in a state of emergency.

    Context

    Shortly after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dramatic increase in the number of patients and the burden of care in ICUs.1 2 Organisations tried to meet the need for …

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    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.