COVID-19 and the nursing labor market: lessons learned by analogies between historical events - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 10-18-2022;75(2):e20200328
The nursing labor market in Brazil is experiencing a paradox. There is, at the same time, both a strong pent-up demand for nursing workers and a large supply of unemployed nursing workers, in addition to workers who have left their profession to work in another field(). Major financial crises, such as the one that the global capitalist system was already experiencing since before the COVID-19 pandemic, affect the labor market in all branches of the economy. However, when major events that greatly increase the demand for health workers occur, the broad and chronic deficiencies of the nursing labor market are exposed to the light of day.
COVID-19 is a disease caused by Betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2(). After detecting cases of pneumonia of unknown cause since early December 2019 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and having identified the genetic code of the new coronavirus two days earlier, the disease was reported for the first time by Chinese national authorities to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019(). The broad clinical spectrum of COVID-19 can range from asymptomatic to sepsis, which causes the syndrome of multiple organ dysfunction, through dry cough and respiratory failure, which requires admission to an Intensive Care Unit to obtain ventilatory support().
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The nursing labor market in Brazil is experiencing a paradox. There is, at the same time, both a strong pent-up demand for nursing workers and a large supply of unemployed nursing workers, in addition to workers who have left their profession to work in another field(). Major financial crises, such as the one that the global capitalist system was already experiencing since before the COVID-19 pandemic, affect the labor market in all branches of the economy. However, when major events that greatly increase the demand for health workers occur, the broad and chronic deficiencies of the nursing labor market are exposed to the light of day.
COVID-19 is a disease caused by Betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2(). After detecting cases of pneumonia of unknown cause since early December 2019 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and having identified the genetic code of the new coronavirus two days earlier, the disease was reported for the first time by Chinese national authorities to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019(). The broad clinical spectrum of COVID-19 can range from asymptomatic to sepsis, which causes the syndrome of multiple organ dysfunction, through dry cough and respiratory failure, which requires admission to an Intensive Care Unit to obtain ventilatory support().
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