Advanced Nursing Practices during Pandemic

In terms of direct care skills, nursing practise difficulties, and healthcare system operations, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on nurses and the field of nursing since 2020. Importantly, the pandemic has had a significant impact on nursing research topics, nursing education, and nurses' professional identities. In formal healthcare systems, nurses are the main human component influencing care results. The COVID-19 pandemic has, however, made it more difficult for nurses and nursing students to develop their professional nursing identities.

Because it is closely related to concerns like nursing roles, responsibilities, values, and ethical standards, which are exclusive to the nursing profession, professional identity is a crucial issue for nurses. Clinical nurses, however, experience moral distress due to conflicts rooted in complex ethical issues related to their professional practise because of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to dealing with consistently high levels of physical and emotional stress, high levels of acuity, patient deaths, and long work hours.

 

In addition, many frontline nurses who had SARS-CoV-2 in the early 2020s had to endure protracted separations from their loved ones or lost their lives while performing their duties. To work on the front lines of a pandemic, nurses need to have tremendous moral bravery and fortitude.

It is unknown how the COVID-19 epidemic may affect the practise of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses.

The purpose of this study was to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected APRN practise and to describe state practise constraints.

Even in jurisdictions with Full Practice Authority (FPA), during the COVID-19 epidemic, and with state executive orders removing practise restrictions, barriers to APRN practise continue to limit certain parts of patient treatment and patient access to care. In order to promote APRN practise authority, policy changes might be backed up by the study's findings.

 

An estimated 18 million healthcare personnel are needed around the world, mostly in low- and middle-income nations, and there is not enough of a distribution of these to meet community requirements with the necessary training and knowledge. There are 8.4 million nursing practitioners in the Region of the Americas, which accounts for 30% of the global total. The majority of professionals in the health system, nurses make up 56% of the entire health workforce (physicians, pharmacists, dentists, midwives, and nurses).

 

Greater professional autonomy for nurses may be a policy solution to reduce physician shortages, as the availability of an advanced practise nurse role is more common in nations with low physician density. 

In the Americas region, advanced nursing functions are claimed to exist in 55% of the countries. The nations of Latin America did not use this role.

The main areas of emphasis in this issue are nurses and nursing education. The results of these investigations should inspire original and imaginative concepts that can be successfully used in nursing research and clinical settings. In order to take care of ourselves and to acquire the knowledge and care skills required to address the nursing shortage and lessen nursing workloads in clinical settings, more research is required to comprehend and explore the comprehensive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses and nursing education. The key objective is to keep up with and raise the standard of care during the pandemic.

 

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