Are nurses prepared to respond to next infectious disease outbreak: A narrative synthesis

Abstract

Over the past few decades, numerous communicable diseases have spread in human society, some of which have caused great threats, burdens and losses to human beings, such as the 2003 SARS epidemic (Stadler et al., 2003), the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic (Scalera & Mossad, 2009), the 2014 Ebola virus disease epidemic (Zawilińska & Kosz-Vnenchak, 2014), the 2015 MERS threat (Mackay & Arden, 2015) and the current outbreak of coronavirus disease (Valencia, 2020). These widespread infectious diseases represent one of the most imminent threats to the world. Moreover, outbreaks of infectious diseases have increased in frequency and intensity, posing much greater challenges and burdens on medical systems (Nii-Trebi, 2017).The emerging and re-emerging infectious disease can be defined as a disease that has newly appeared in a population or has existed previously but is rapidly increasing in incidence (Morens et al., 2004). The abruption and rapid spread of infectious disease outbreaks have highlighted the capacity and speed of government and medical system to respond. In the fight against infectious

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