This is what it’s like fighting COVID-19 the second time around.
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Health education curriculums need to specifically prepare healthcare professionals to respond to a pandemic when it comes to aspects like infection control, aged care and mental health.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on another US medical emergency: a serious shortage of nurses.
Widely adopted in the US when pandemic precautions kept people home, telehealth faces a challenge as insurance coverage changes, right when its popularity had surged.
Nurses are uniquely at risk of COVID-19, and are affected by many of the health inequalities that the pandemic has exposed. But no one is listening to them.
A new approach is making a big difference in Virginia.
The UK was late at recognising smell loss as a COVID symptom.
Healthcare workers bear the extraordinary practical and psychological challenges of working daily with the threat of infection and for many months.
Involving senior health science students in the everyday practice helped address the workload in facilities, improved quality of patient care, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
Gross negligence won’t be excused under any circumstances. But standards for reasonable medical care can’t be the same as in pre-COVID-19 times.
The pandemic illustrates that attacks against healthcare can – and do – happen everywhere.
Health Minister Greg Hunt has issued a warning that the deliberate transmission of COVID-19 can be prosecuted. But the application of a law like this is unclear and could cause unnecessary worry.
The coronavirus pandemic is placing immense mental and physical pressures on NHS staff.
Gratitude has a strong connection to well-being, but more than that, two psychologists say, it could have a powerful effect on others. So, don’t hold back when it comes to expressing it.
Panic buying and hoarding of personal protective equipment such as masks accelerates consumption of a finite supply.
A culture of fear and blame in the NHS could be improved by a different approach to how nurses and doctors learn from gaps in their performance.
A groundbreaking NZ$2 billion pay equity settlement has lifted the income for many care workers in aged care and community support, but it had some unintended consequences.
Healthcare workers are losing trust in the system in South Africa.
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Reader in Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; and Honorary Research Associate at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Rhinology and Olfactology, University of East Anglia
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Public Health Medicine Specialist and Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Davina Porock is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Nursing, Director of Centre for Research in Aged Care, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in Nursing, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Otago
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Professor, Infectious Disease-Trained Epidemiologist and Nurse Practitioner, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at Ghana Health Service
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Professor of Industrial Relations, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor, Global Health and Development, James Cook University
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Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Research Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Presidential Academic Fellow in Medical Humanitarianism, University of Manchester