Nurses and other health workers are at the front-line in the fight against COVID-19. Due to COVID-19, nursing practice has been impacted and enhanced the adoption of the following changes.
- COVID-19 has enhanced the use of technology.
- It has enhanced public-private partnership
- Longer-lasting wound dressing techniques
- It has made community-healthy providers take full responsibility for the patient’s discharge.
- Providing education to patients on how to administer and supervise home-based insulin injections.
In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, nursing practice has had to adopt the use of technology, and this has ensured that nurses can conduct provider-to-client telemedicine. Secondly, through the use of technology, nurses can access clinical decision support through consultations with their colleagues.
COVID-19 has enhanced public-private partnership; this has been possible through engagements among the nurses in the health occupation programs.
Adoption of honey-based wound dressing ensures that wounds can be dressed to last for up to seven days before they can be changed.
Besides, COVID-19 has made nurses to be tasked with the responsibility of discharging patients to create more hospital beds for critically ill patients.
Finally, patients and their caregivers have had to be taught on how to administer and supervise home-based insulin injections to ensure that there are minimal visits to health facilities.