Pandemic And Role Of Nurses

The American Academy of Nursing asserts in "Expanding nursing's role in responding to global pandemics" that nurses are prepared for leadership roles in health system and government agency policy decisions and can prepare for, identify, respond to, and direct recovery efforts for global pandemics that require an informed, internationally coordinated response. In other words, nurses are (and have always been) especially suited to dealing with the long-term crises of a pandemic, and their presence on the front lines is one of our most effective disease-fighting tools. Because of their prior expertise dealing closely with patients, nurses are perfect for this duty. By drawing on such knowledge and rapidly analysing a patient's status, the transmission of illness may (and frequently is) greatly reduced.