Impact of COVID‐19 on acute isolation bed capacity and nursing workforce requirements: A retrospective review

Aim To understand the impact of COVID‐19 on isolation bed capacity requirements, nursing workforce requirements and nurse:patient ratios. Background COVID‐19 created an increased demand for isolation beds and nursing workforce globally. Methods This was a retrospective review of bed capacity, bed oc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of nursing management 2021-07, Vol.29 (5), p.1220-1227
Hauptverfasser:	Fan, Esther Monica Peijin, Nguyen, Ngoc Hoang Long, Ang, Shin Yuh, Aloweni, Fazila, Goh, Hui Qi Ivy, Quek, Li Ting, Ayre, Tracy Carol, Pourghaderi, Ahmad Reza, Lam, Shao Wei, Ong, Eng Hock Marcus
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	bed capacity Beds Business & Economics Cleaning COVID-19 Humans Life Sciences & Biomedicine Management Nursing Nursing administration nursing management Nursing Staff, Hospital nursing workforce Occupancy Original Pandemics Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Retrospective Studies SARS-CoV-2 Science & Technology Singapore Social Sciences Staffing Visualization Workforce workforce planning
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Zusammenfassung:	Aim To understand the impact of COVID‐19 on isolation bed capacity requirements, nursing workforce requirements and nurse:patient ratios. Background COVID‐19 created an increased demand for isolation beds and nursing workforce globally. Methods This was a retrospective review of bed capacity, bed occupancy and nursing workforce data from the isolation units of a tertiary hospital in Singapore from 23 January 2020 to 31 May 2020. R v4.0.1 and Tidyverse 1.3.0 library were used for data cleaning and plotly 4.9.2.1 library for data visualization. Results In January to March 2020, isolation bed capacity was low (=
ISSN:	0966-0429 1365-2834 1365-2834
DOI:	10.1111/jonm.13260