Providing nursing care to Ebola virus disease patients: China Ebola Treatment Unit experience

Cao, Jie; Zhang, Lingjuan; Xi, Huijun; Lü, Xiaoying; Chu, Dan-feng; Xie, Minghui; Li, Li; Chen, Jue

doi:10.7189/jogh.05.020301

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“…Our results confirm the need to integrate disaster-management, or emergency-risk management, training into nursing education programmes as reported by others [14–18]. Increased globalisation, and nurses being the major contributors to global health care, states the need for health services to be prepared to cope with major emergencies or disasters, as well as acts of terrorism [40].…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Nevertheless, they are seldom prepared for the challenges they are facing, and research is scarce regarding the required nursing skills for first responders needed during a disaster situation [11,12]. Previous research concerning EVD has mainly focused on guidance for health care workers, such as protective equipment and behaviours [13], infection control and emergency management [14–18], set up of community care centers [19], as well as research in laboratory settings [20,21]. Few studies have focused on health care staff’s own experiences when caring for patients under very extreme conditions [22–25].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Global nursing in an Ebola viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak: before, during and after deployment

Strauss

Paillard-Borg

Holmgren

et al. 2017

Global Health Action

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Background: Nurses are on the forefront and play a key role in global disaster responses. Nevertheless, they are often not prepared for the challenges they are facing and research is scarce regarding the nursing skills required for first responders during a disaster situation. Objectives: To investigate how returnee nursing staff experienced deployment before, during and after having worked for the Red Cross at an Ebola Treatment Center in Kenema, West Africa, and to supply knowledge on how to better prepare and support staff for viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional approach. Questionnaires were administered to nurses having worked with patients suffering from Ebola in 2014 and 2015. Data collection covered aspects of pre-, during and post-deployment on clinical training, personal health, stress management, leadership styles, socio-cultural exposure and knowledge transfer, as well as attitudes from others. Data was analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Results: Response-rate was 88%: forty-four nurses from 15 different countries outside West Africa answered the questionnaire. The respondents identified the following needs for improvement: increased mental health and psychosocial support and hands-on coping strategies with focus on pre- and post-deployment; more pre-deployment task-oriented clinical training; and workload reduction, as exhaustion is a risk for safety. Conclusions: This study supplies knowledge on how to better prepare health care staff for future viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks and other disasters. Participants were satisfied with their pre-deployment physical health preparation, whereas they stressed the importance of mental health support combined with psychosocial support after deployment. Furthermore, additional pre-clinical training was requested.

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confidence: 88%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global nursing in an Ebola viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak: before, during and after deployment

Strauss

Paillard-Borg

Holmgren

et al. 2017

Global Health Action

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“…The principal of high security and 'extreme caution' to prevent infection and transmission to others is something they never underestimate (cf. Atanga et al 2015, Cao et al 2015, Stephens et al 2015. Everyone followed hygiene prescriptions and reminded each other about a good safety work.…”

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“…The principal of extreme caution is another expression for safety and need not be underestimated when caring for patients with EVD to control the infection. EVD is not a 'horrible monster' if the medical staff follows this rule strictly (Cao et al 2015).…”

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Ebola virus disease: caring for patients in Sierra Leone – a qualitative study

Andertun

Hörnsten

Hajdarević

2016

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…In recent years, the prevalence of severe infectious disease has increased, and the number of emerging infectious diseases continues to increase [1]. The Chinese government and military forces have been highly focused on infectious disease prevention and control, and through militarycivilian cooperation, they have successfully prevented numerous severe epidemic situations, such as sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), influenza A (H1N1), avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9, and Ebola hemorrhagic fever, while actively maintaining public health, economic development, and national construction [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. This article introduces military-civilian joint prevention and control as well as prevention and control experiences to provide a basis for reference for future infectious disease prevention and control.…”

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Military-civilian cooperative emergency response to infectious disease prevention and control in China

Dong

Zhou

et al. 2016

Military Med Res

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In recent years, the incidence of severe infectious diseases has increased, and the number of emerging infectious diseases continues to increase. The Chinese government and military forces have paid a great deal of attention to infectious disease prevention and control, and using military-civilian cooperation, they have successfully prevented numerous severe epidemic situations, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), influenza A (H1N1), avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9, and Ebola hemorrhagic fever, while actively maintained public health, economic development, and national construction. This paper focuses on the mechanisms of the military-cooperative emergency response to infectious diseases--the joint working mechanism, the information-sharing mechanism, the research collaboration mechanism, and the joint disposal mechanism--and presents a sorted summary of the practices and experiences of cooperative emergency responses to infectious diseases. In the future, the Chinese military and the civilian sector will further strengthen the cooperative joint command system and emergency rescue force and will reinforce their collaborative information-sharing platform and technical equipment system to further improve military-civilian collaborative emergency infectious diseases disposal, advance the level of infectious disease prevention and control, and maintain public health.

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Providing nursing care to Ebola virus disease patients: China Ebola Treatment Unit experience

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Global nursing in an Ebola viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak: before, during and after deployment

Global nursing in an Ebola viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak: before, during and after deployment

Ebola virus disease: caring for patients in Sierra Leone – a qualitative study

Military-civilian cooperative emergency response to infectious disease prevention and control in China

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