Itambo Jacqueline, Owusu Brenda, McCamey Danielle, Baptiste Diana-Lyn
School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
School of Nursing, Colorado State University, Pueblo, Colorado, USA.
Nurs Open. 2024 Dec;11(12):e70079. doi: 10.1002/nop2.70079.
To discuss the need to expand advanced practice nurse education in Sub-Saharan Africa as a strategic response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Discursive paper.
Searching international literature in PubMed, CINAHL and Google Scholar databases, we explored the impact of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa and the advanced practice nurse role and education in the pandemic response.
The COVID-19 pandemic served as a barrier to healthcare access and disrupted routine immunizations and care, reduced facility-based healthcare services, increased disease burden and mortality, strain and is expected to worsen the healthcare workforce shortage in Sub-Saharan Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasised the necessity to strengthen advanced practice nurse education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This discursive paper underscores the critical role of advanced practice nurse education in Sub-Saharan Africa as a proactive strategy to strengthen the healthcare workforce and systems. The lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the urgency to invest in advanced practice nurse education and training programmes in the region.
There was no patient or public involvement in the design or drafting of this discursive paper. The authors reviewed the literature to develop a discussion about advanced nursing practice.
探讨在撒哈拉以南非洲扩大高级实践护士教育的必要性，以此作为应对新冠疫情影响的战略举措。
论述性论文。
通过检索PubMed、CINAHL和谷歌学术数据库中的国际文献，我们探究了新冠疫情在撒哈拉以南非洲的影响以及高级实践护士在疫情应对中的角色和教育情况。
新冠疫情成为获取医疗服务的障碍，扰乱了常规免疫接种和护理，减少了基于医疗机构的医疗服务，增加了疾病负担和死亡率，造成压力，预计还会加剧撒哈拉以南非洲医疗劳动力短缺的状况。新冠疫情进一步凸显了在撒哈拉以南非洲加强高级实践护士教育的必要性。
这篇论述性论文强调了高级实践护士教育在撒哈拉以南非洲的关键作用，它是加强医疗劳动力和医疗系统的一项积极战略。从新冠疫情中吸取的教训凸显了在该地区投资高级实践护士教育和培训项目的紧迫性。
在这篇论述性论文的设计或起草过程中没有患者或公众参与。作者通过回顾文献来展开关于高级护理实践的讨论。
