2020 - Year of Nursing - Year of the Pandemic - Year of Elderly Individuals as a Risk Group: Implications for Gerontological Nursing - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 07-13-2020;73:e2020supl3
Two thousand twenty was declared the year of the nurse and the midwife by the WHO, however they did not expect the advance of a pandemic such as COVID-19. Nurses have never been more prominent in this 21st century than they are now. However, we experience contradictions of valorization, with testimonials from patients touched by the care provided, as well as information in the media with a devaluation of nursing staff’s work().
Nevertheless, we are in the spotlight, meanwhile a cyber world of news in groups and social networks highlights the death of another co-worker, or another distant colleague with COVID-19, desperate to take the test, looking for help in contact groups, sharing the fear of the severity of disease and result of their tomography exams and exchanging messages about medications taken. They suffer because they have to choose between isolating themselves after an exhaustive shift and being at risk of contaminating their family. They need to choose between leaving to work and not being sure if they will return, if there will be surrender at work, and not knowing the scenario they will encounter or even if they will have Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to work with. Exactly, this was the year of the nurse and the midwife!
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Two thousand twenty was declared the year of the nurse and the midwife by the WHO, however they did not expect the advance of a pandemic such as COVID-19. Nurses have never been more prominent in this 21st century than they are now. However, we experience contradictions of valorization, with testimonials from patients touched by the care provided, as well as information in the media with a devaluation of nursing staff’s work().
Nevertheless, we are in the spotlight, meanwhile a cyber world of news in groups and social networks highlights the death of another co-worker, or another distant colleague with COVID-19, desperate to take the test, looking for help in contact groups, sharing the fear of the severity of disease and result of their tomography exams and exchanging messages about medications taken. They suffer because they have to choose between isolating themselves after an exhaustive shift and being at risk of contaminating their family. They need to choose between leaving to work and not being sure if they will return, if there will be surrender at work, and not knowing the scenario they will encounter or even if they will have Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to work with. Exactly, this was the year of the nurse and the midwife!
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