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Hello Everyone,

This has been a long eight weeks with everything going on in the world. Please take a moment to share one thing that you learned that you will be able to take on with you in your own practice?

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Reply 1: Zoraida

 One thing that I learned for sure and will take with me, not only from this eight weeks but from this whole year is the fact that we need to live in the present moment. Today is all we have, who knows what´s gonna happen tomorrow. Everybody say this but not too many people practice it. We are too worry about the future and what we will do tomorrow or next month or even next year and we forget that life is happening right not at this very moment. My philosophy of life changed completely, I learned that tomorrow is not promised. I saw how co-workers died fighting COVID. How so many families lost a loved one. So lets enjoy the here and now. if we are working lets enjoy it. If we are home with the family lets enjoy that. We need to pay more attention to what we are doing because that time is not coming back. Its been a hard year for the healthcare worldwide. This pandemic came to show us that we are not ready for a pandemic this big. The hospitals were short staff all over the country, nurses worked long hours, extra shift to help with the workload. This is talking form personal experience. I had to go to work extra hours and not because I wanted to overtime because the hospital was so short that nurses were having more patients than they were supposed to have. I know things are not going to change because a new year is coming. We need to keep working together to help stop the spreading of COVID and be able to return to normal, so families can be together and spend time outside with their families. Regardless everything we need to be thankful that we are here able to help those who need us the most right now. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very healthy and happy New Year 2021. 

Reply 2 : Leasia

The noticeable lack of staff is one of the biggest problems I have had to face at the Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Despite the absolute professionalism of all members of the nursing team, the lack of staff is particularly evident in longer working hours, the difficulty of providing high-quality medical care to patients, and increased stress due to the need to know literally everything. Given that the pandemic's escalation exacerbates this problem, lack of protective equipment, increased workload, relatively low hourly wages create the conditions for longstanding "preservation" of the shortage of specialists (Fuller et al., 2020). In turn, this tendency cannot but be reflected in a decrease in the quality of care, including insufficiently thorough examinations and supervision of people, especially high-risk patients, and an increase in the number of complaints from both patients and their families.

Speaking of the new nursing interventions I learned during this week of work at my clinical site, continence management is more than essential in the process of effective treatment and rehabilitation of patients. Despite very little attention to this topic, incontinence is a widespread and problematic condition, especially for older people. Since not every health worker has in-depth knowledge of incontinence, the lack of effective continence management is due to a lack of staff and educational training events. Therefore, increasing the prioritization of these conditions and stratifying nursing responsibilities are fundamental for successful management (Hunter & Wagg, 2018). Although this intervention is quite limited, this situation helped me understand that any condition that creates even the slightest discomfort for the patient should be addressed in any way possible, namely by increasing attention to the existing problem, knowledge mobilization training programs, or delegation of authority, provided limited human resources.