Nursing Practice during COVID-19: Preparation, Education and Support (eBook)

This book highlights the progresses achieved in the role of nurses in the hospital, critical care unit, community field, hospital, and at home for patient care management in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), especially in the South Asia and the Middle East. Nurses and allied health care professionals play a significant role in preventing and treating the infectious disease pandemic and epidemic that is COVID-19 and, on the front lines of treatment, they suffer an inescapable health risk due to the fact that they must live with, encounter, and accept the hazard of dealing with developing respiratory illnesses. Nurses also endure significant stress, burden, and mental health concerns as a result of worldwide respiratory epidemics. Because of this, nurses require ongoing assistance and training in order to increase their crisis preparation and efficacy while also coping with psychological issues and ensuring their own well-being. 

This book reflects the experience of Indianand Saudian nurses, develops on COVID-19 stress and challenges and informs on the technologies employed. Nurses' experiences caring for patients with COVID-19 around the world are scarcely documented. The research that has been done so far have mostly focused on the physical and psychological effects of stress. This expands on the role of nurse managers and hospital administration with key stakeholders emphasizing the need of providing support for nurses in their role, especially considering that the positive leadership responsibilities of nurse managers are highly regarded by nurses. 

•       About the Author:

Mrs. Kainat Alam, M. Sc, Ph.D. (pursuing), is an Assistant Professor at the KKECS College of Nursing, Bangalore, Karnataka. Her major areas of research interest focus on ostetrics & gynecological issues. She has published articles in various reputed journals including Seminar in Cancer Biology, Elsevier (IF 15.7), aswell as book and book chapters in various international renowned publishers.. Kainat has earned a highly impressive publishing and cited record in Google Scholar (H-index of 15, Total Citation: 500); and received many travel grants from international congress such as IAPRD, WCN and KSN.

Mrs. Shipra Daniel, M. Sc, Ph.D. (Pursuing), is an Assistant Professor at the Christian College of Nursing, SHUATS, Allahabad, India.  She has completed a M. Sc nursing in Community Nursing and has 7 years of experience in teaching. She is particularly interested in Nursing care for special groups: physically and mentally challenged- Urban and rural population of Uttar Pradesh, India. She is the author of several articles and international book and book chapters in various international reputed publishers. 

Abdulaziz Alzahrani Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the pharmaceutical chemistry department faculty of pharmacy at Al-Baha university, working in the laboratory of department. He has a Master degree in clinical pharmacology from the University of Aberdeen (2013) and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Liverpool (2018). He has experience in bioinformatics, with emphasis on binding drugs to the target protein, immunotherapy. To date, he has published over 25 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has a Google Scholar H-index of 5 and over 50 citations.

Waleed Hassan Almalki, PhD, is a Professor of Pharmacology at the College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Glasgow, the United Kingdom having a dissertation on ocular pharmacology. His current research is focused onthe broad areas of host-virus networks in hepacivirus C disease progression as well as host-virus genes expression during oxidative stress, hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. He is also enthusiastically involved in the studies of tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of breast and colon cancer, in the Saudi population. To date, he has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 15 book chapters, and four books. He has a Google Scholar H-index of 23 and over 2414 citations.