Nursing role in the covid-19 pandemic: Systematic Review

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role of nursing; Covid-19; pandemic

Abstract

The role of the nurse is based on providing comprehensive quality care to the healthy or sick person and accompanying him/her in the healing and rehabilitation process, and if necessary, at the time of death. Objective: To examine the role of nursing in the Covid-19 pandemic through a systematic review. Methodology: A systematic investigation was carried out in the scientific databases PubMed, SciElo, Google Scholar, Nursing Journal combining the Boolean operators AND and OR, in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Results: The literary search reported 1243 documents after the application of the selection criteria and evaluative reading, 32 articles were included for analysis due to their belonging and contribution to the fulfillment of the objective. Conclusions: It is possible to affirm that the pandemic caused by Covid-19 placed the health systems in different challenges, where the nurse played a transcendental and recognized role, standing out for being the heart and fundamental pillar in the different levels of care, demonstrating their safety and leadership by being in a frontline scenario.

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2023-04-10

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Daniela Estefanía Rojas Sarango, Isabel Cristina Mesa Cano, Andrés Alexis Ramírez Coronel, & Edison Gustavo Moyano Brito. (2023). Nursing role in the covid-19 pandemic: Systematic Review. AVFT – Archivos Venezolanos De Farmacología Y Terapéutica, 40(6). Retrieved from http://caelum.ucv.ve/ojs/index.php/rev_aavft/article/view/26049