Principles in Nursing Practice in the Era of COVID-19 (eBook)

This guide provides a summary of key nursing practices and established guidelines necessary to provide care to the spectrum of patients with COVID-19. Experts in the field offer concise and relevant information to fill current knowledge gaps.This book is meant as a practical nursing guide for both the inpatient and outpatient settings as well as the adult and pediatric populations. This virus has progressed rapidly, causing substantial disruption on a global scale never before seen in our lifetime. Caring for these patients has proven especially challenging due to the rapid growth of research and ever evolving data that comes with the discovery of a new disease. The editors desired to produce a concise, current, and convenient resource accessible to nurses of any background, in any geographical location, which would provide a foundation for the care of patients with COVID-19.

Amanda Bergeron has over 17 years of experience in nursing and has been an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for the past 7 years at Memorial Hermann Hospital- Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX. She has been involved in research and has published articles on nursing and ECMO. She has written several lectures for the MSN program at the University of Texas Cizik School of Nursing as well as served as clinical faculty.