Journal of nursing management
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To understand how nurses experience providing care for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in intensive care units. ⋯ To better support nurses, hospital leaders need to account for their experiences caring for COVID-19 patients when making staffing decisions.
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Nurse managers play key roles in creating and enforcing organisational hair policies and practices. This challenging paper will provoke discussion, debate and hopefully the dismantling of racist hair policies that disproportionately target black students and nurses. ⋯ Health service hair policies targeting black nurses especially are not 'neutral'. Nurse managers can challenge this institutional discrimination, demonstrating health services' commitment to ending racism in all of its guises.
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To explore oncology health care professionals' perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic response. ⋯ Frontline nurses should hold positions on task forces to develop future emergency preparedness.
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To examine the gap between nursing assistants' desired roles and their perceptions of nurses' expectations, and the relationship between these perceptions and nursing assistants' nursing team participation. ⋯ It may be useful for nurses and nursing assistants to jointly reflect on and promote awareness of nursing assistants' functional roles in the ward. This would promote nursing assistant team participation and optimize their scope of practice.
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To understand about the experiences and feelings of the nurses infected with COVID-19 when caring for patients with COVID-19. ⋯ This manuscript provides nursing managers an understanding of the personal experiences and needs of clinical nurses in their work, especially during COVID-19. It is helpful for nursing managers to explore the greater driving force of nurses and prepare nursing human resources for greater challenges.