Importance of human resources to combat the covid -19
Utilize local staff education and resource-sharing platforms
Hospitals need to utilize local staff education and resource-sharing platforms to educate their healthcare providers on principles of taking care of critically ill patients. Educational modules should be rigorously vetted. At minimum, modules should address identifying critically ill patients who may need respiratory support, basic ventilator management, and medical management of critically ill patients in the ICU. Educational modules should be tailored based on the skills and needs of those healthcare professionals needing to be cross-trained.
The current COVID-19 crisis is threatening healthcare systems’ ability to provide appropriate, reliable, and timely care to patients in need. Healthcare systems around the world will need to strategically plan how to redeploy and preserve their human resource safely, rapidly, and efficiently. Risk-mitigation, cross-training, and anticipating and addressing the health and well-being of the healthcare workforce will be essential topics that the leadership of healthcare systems will need to critically address when preparing to meet the demands of potential surges of critically ill patients that will stress individuals, families and systems in unprecedented ways.
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