Richardson Veronica L, Garcia-Albea Victoria R, Bort Nicole L, Mayne Susan L, Nolen Mary E, Bobonich Margaret A
Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Lahey Clinic Dermatology Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program, Department of Dermatology, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Burlington, MA.
J Dermatol Nurses Assoc. 2021 Jan-Feb;13(1):49-53. doi: 10.1097/JDN.0000000000000586. Epub 2020 Dec 24.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States in early 2020, few healthcare workers were prepared for what lay ahead. Dermatology nurses, medical assistants, and nurse practitioners experienced rapid changes in the way they conducted their daily practice. This article discusses many of those changes and explores the challenges these healthcare workers faced and continue to face. Almost every aspect of how dermatologic care was delivered prepandemic was affected. Some dermatology nurses, medical assistants, and nurse practitioners were redeployed to COVID-19 testing tents and inpatient hospital units or were asked to perform tasks to help support other healthcare workers. This article explores how clinical practice, dermatology staff, patient care, and education were affected. These changes forced dermatology healthcare workers to be brave, accept risks, and ultimately grow from these experiences.
2020年初新冠疫情袭击美国时，几乎没有医护人员为即将到来的情况做好准备。皮肤科护士、医疗助理和执业护士在日常工作方式上经历了迅速的变化。本文讨论了其中的许多变化，并探讨了这些医护人员所面临以及仍在面临的挑战。疫情前皮肤科护理的几乎每个方面都受到了影响。一些皮肤科护士、医疗助理和执业护士被重新部署到新冠病毒检测帐篷和医院住院部，或者被要求执行任务以帮助支持其他医护人员。本文探讨了临床实践、皮肤科工作人员、患者护理和教育是如何受到影响的。这些变化迫使皮肤科医护人员变得勇敢，接受风险，并最终从这些经历中成长。
