Nursing in Practice May/June 2020 (issue 114) | Page 30

16 EDITORIAL
The weeks th
change nursi
Nurses are
reshaping the health
service to cope with
the pandemic. Now,
writes Emily Twinch,
it’s time to give them
the support and
protection they need
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in Practice, Covid-19 put t
start has given me the cha
their amazing dedication as they
could contract Covid-19 or even
Carolyn Doyle from the Royal
despite staff shortages, commu
stops’. The same is true for prac
new ways of working, with triage
have been redeployed to ‘hot hu
symptoms face to face, often in
encounter.
But, as this edition of Nursing
the challenge.
Marie Therese Massey, also fr
much of the progress made in th
‘no going back’, she says. Opin
Eveleigh, Rhona Aikman and Eli
a taste of their lives during the p
This is different from the expe
who are taking on greater workl
Covid-19 and hospitals discharg
school nurses are being redeplo
skills, and their absence from th
a rise in domestic violence.
And nurses are taking on thes
personal protective equipment (
reported stories where nurses s
equipment or they are being ask
must stop. Especially for nurses
the peak was still to come as Nu
same goes for community nurse
patient contact.
We have set up a tribute page
(bit.ly/3fCWjMI) in this crisis and
and community nurses.
But the pandemic is far from o
shortly after Prime Minister Boris
ease the lockdown – a plan that
Covid-19 is controlled, which co
Fresh waves of the pandemic
lockdown. Healthcare profession
in the future.
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