Weathering the Covid-19 storm: The impact on health professionals
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Date
2021
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Abstract
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health professionals have been on
the forefront of delivering healthcare whilst experiencing unprecedented stress facing complex
ethical situations, heavy workloads, long working hours and high levels of patient acuity and
deaths (Fernandez-Parsons, Rodriguez & Goyal 2013; Talevi et al. 2020). Health professionals
have continued to display a professional duty of care (Fernandez et al. 2020; Spoorthy, Pratapa &
Mahant 2020; Valdez 2021) with, for example, reports of 97% of the frontline nurses in China
expressing their willingness to work during the pandemic (Hu et al. 2020). This duty of care is
embedded through professional education and socialisation of health professionals with
expectations and norms about saving lives, relieving suffering and not abandoning patients
(Turale, Meechamnan & Kunaviktikul 2020).
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Covid-19, Public health, Health professionals, Nursing, South Africa
Citation
Chipps, J., & Jarvis, M. A. (2021). Weathering the Covid-19 storm: The impact on health professionals. Health SA Gesondheid, 26(0), a1690. https://doi. org/10.4102/hsag.v26i0.1690