The afternoon symposium explored the impacts of COVID-19 on nursing practice. This year, it was recorded via the online meeting platform, Zoom<\/a>, and was able to be shared with healthcare practitioners beyond the normal scope.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is probably very little disagreement that the COVID-19 pandemic turned into almost this global crisis in which nursing played a very important role both in terms of responding to it and also leading it.”<\/p>\n Moderator \u201cA take away [as] we move into a longer term phase of [COVID-19] is ensuring that nursing leadership is present because we really have that strategic vision, we understand practice and models of care.”<\/p>\n Panelist \u201cWe were a little bit surprised and a little bit unprepared, with our focus being on \u2018this is where it\u2019s going to happen\u2019 that [COVID cases] ended up happening in long-term care first in BC. It exposed a vulnerability we were a little bit blind to.”<\/p>\n Panelist “It was about making sure that staff had the adequate equipment so they were able to do the work they needed to do and also [ensuring] that they had managers to go for support and help.”<\/p>\n Panelist “[Taking a] holistic look at the impact of the pandemic on society, on people’s health and wellbeing over time, is a really important place for nurses because [they] walk alongside people on that journey.”<\/p>\n Panelist Navigating the Tempest: Nursing Practice During COVID=19 The afternoon symposium explored the impacts of COVID-19 on nursing practice. This year, it was recorded via the online meeting platform, Zoom, and was able to be shared with healthcare practitioners beyond the normal scope. \u201cThere is probably very little disagreement that the COVID-19 pandemic turned into almost this global crisis in which nursing played a very important role both in terms of responding to it and also leading it.” Moderator Dr. Farinaz Havaei Assistant Professor \u201cA take away [as] we move into…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-year-of-the-nurse-and-midwife","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr. Farinaz Havaei
\nAssistant Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nDr. Natasha Prodan-Bhalla
\nChief Nurse and Professional Practice Officer, Minister of Health<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nMs. Vini Bains
\nClinical Nurse Specialist for Critical Program at Providence Healthcare<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nMs. Yvonne Coghill
\nDirector, Workforce Race Equality, NHS London<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nDr. Jennifer Baumbusch
\nAssociate Professor, CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair, MHLP<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"