Abstract
In 2020, the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, health care workers across the globe faced unprecedented challenges in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Yirus, which was first identified in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. In the months that followed, COVID-19 spread to every inhabited continent. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 (World Health Organization, 2020).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Global Health and Nursing |
| Editors | Barbara Stilwell |
| Publisher | Elsevier Health Sciences |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 70-86 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780323877800 |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- COVID 19
- nursing workforce
- International Year of the Nurse and Midwife
- unprecedented challenges
- pandemic
- acute health care
- Hospital admissions