"Will they just pack up and leave?" – attitudes and intended behaviour of hospital health care workers during an influenza pandemic

Seale, Holly; Leask, Julie; Po, Kieren; MacIntyre, C. Raina

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-30

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“…2,7,[9][10][11][12][15][16][17]19 This study further identified a number of lesser-known factors that influence decisions to attend work during a disaster such as leadership in the workplace and the influence of positive collegial relationships.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[6][7][8][9][10] Healthcare personnel who fear for their own safety in terms of illness, injury or death are reluctant to attend work during a disaster. [11][12][13][14] The availability of appropriate treatment, prophylaxis and infection control measures may increase the likelihood to respond.…”

Section: Concern For Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…6,13,15,16 Mistrust or a lack of confidence in the employer to maintain employee safety during a disaster correlates with a decreasing willingness to attend work. 9,10,17 It is suggested that a lack of confidence in hospital preparedness may be because the hospital has not made adequate disaster plans, or because staff are not aware of these plans. 9 A lack of information, or conflicting information provided to health care personnel, as was seen in the H 1 N 1 pandemic 18 also results in a level of mistrust in healthcare employers.…”

Section: Concern For Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…9,11,15,16,19,22 Health care personnel reported that concerns for personal and family safety may be negated by a desire to fulfil professional responsibilities. 9,10,22 Masterson et al 16 found that sense of duty to their occupation was one of the most influential factors in the willingness of emergency department workers to respond.…”

Section: Professional Dutymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring staff willingness to attend work during a disaster: A study of nurses employed in four Australian emergency departments

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Concern For Safetymentioning

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“…Influenza vaccination was not included within the mandatory requirements. The study was broadly focused on three major areas: HCW pandemic influenza preparedness, attitudes to mandates and attitudes to seasonal influenza vaccination 20 , 21 . Results for latter are the focus of this report.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes amongst Australian hospital healthcare workers towards seasonal influenza and vaccination

Seale

Leask

MacIntyre

2009

Influenza Resp Viruses

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Background Amongst healthcare workers (HCWs), compliance rates with influenza vaccination are traditionally low. Although a safe and effective vaccine is available, there is little Australian data on reasons for poor compliance, especially amongst allied health and ancillary support staff. Methods Cross‐sectional investigation of a sample of clinical and non‐clinical HCWs from two tertiary‐referral teaching hospitals in Sydney, Australia was conducted between June 4 and October 19, 2007. The self‐administered questionnaire was distributed to hospital personal from 40 different wards and departments. The main outcome measures were personal beliefs about influenza vaccination and self‐reported vaccination status. Results Respondents (n = 1079) were categorized into four main groups by occupation: nurses (47·5%, 512/1079), physicians (26·0%, 281/1079), allied health (15·3%, 165/1079) and ancillary (11·2%, 121/1079). When asked whether they felt the influenza vaccine was safe or effective, 81% (879/1079) and 68% (733/1079), respectively, replied in the affirmative. Participants felt that it was more important to get vaccinated to protect patients (74%, 796/1079) than family (68%, 730/1079) or self‐protection (66%, 712/1079). However, only 22% (241/1079) of the HCWs who replied reported receiving the vaccine the year the survey was conducted. Conclusions Although HCWs had an adequate level of knowledge towards influenza vaccination, only 22% of them were vaccinated. The approach to improving influenza vaccination rates amongst HCWs and to tackling misconceptions must be multifaceted, adaptable and must evolve regularly to increase coverage.

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Patient safety, quality of care and missed nursing care at a cardiology department during the COVID‐19 outbreak

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At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus resulted in an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which started in Wuhan, China. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic (World Health Organization, 2020), and in line with other European countries, several regions in Sweden needed to expand their capacity for treating patients suffering from COVID-19.The literature indicates that nurse staffing has a large impact on whether the required nursing care can be delivered (Griffiths et al., 2018). Missed nursing care (MNC) is defined as any aspect of required patient care that is omitted (in part or in whole) or delayed (Kalisch et al., 2009). Moreover, MNC is associated with negative patient outcomes and is a threat to the quality of care and patient safety (Ball et al., 2014;Schubert et al., 2012).In the disease outbreak in spring 2019, the patients with SARS-Cov-2 were a new patient group for the entire staff. To deliver care for a completely new group of patients challenged the healthcare professionals in their work with patient safety and quality of care.

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"Will they just pack up and leave?" – attitudes and intended behaviour of hospital health care workers during an influenza pandemic

Cited by 126 publications

References 21 publications

Exploring staff willingness to attend work during a disaster: A study of nurses employed in four Australian emergency departments

Exploring staff willingness to attend work during a disaster: A study of nurses employed in four Australian emergency departments

Attitudes amongst Australian hospital healthcare workers towards seasonal influenza and vaccination

Patient safety, quality of care and missed nursing care at a cardiology department during the COVID‐19 outbreak

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