Nursing in Practice May/June 2020 (issue 114) | Page 31

at will
ng for ever
start a job, you might not choose
ortly after I started as editor at Nursing
he world into lockdown. This unusual
nce to see the resilience of nurses –
carry out their jobs, knowing they
worse, die from it.
College of Nursing tells us (p10) that
nity nurses have ‘pulled out the
tice nurses. Some are having to learn
and remote consultations. Some
bs’ that see patients with coronavirus
acute situations they do not usually
in Practice shows, they have risen to
om the RCN, told us she believes
ese short weeks will stay. There’s
ions from practice nurses Marilyn
a Monteiro (p18, 20 and 28) give
andemic.
rience of some community nurses,
oads as colleagues become ill with
e patients earlier. Health visitors and
yed to roles that do not use their
eir usual posts has sparked fears of
Time
and again
we have
reported
stories
where
nurses feel
they lack
the proper
protective
equipment’
e challenges often without adequate
PPE). Time and again we have
ay they are working with a lack of
ed to re-use single-use PPE. This
in care homes, where it seemed likely
rsing in Practice went to press. The
s whose jobs cannot be done without
for those who have lost their lives
the majority named are social care
ver. Nursing in Practice went to press
Johnson set out his ‘road map’ to
depends on how the spread of
uld change considerably.
could come with further easing of the
als need the right protection now and