Additional Challenges for Health Care Workers Caused by Covid-19

Evidence and Research for HealthCare
Management

Table of Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION (500)..................................................................................................................1
AIM..................................................................................................................................................2
OBJECTIVE....................................................................................................................................2
SEARCH STRATEGY (500)..........................................................................................................2
BODY REVIEW (2000)..................................................................................................................3
Theme 1: Role of healthcare worker in covid-19...................................................................3
Theme 2: Challenges faced by healthcare worker due to Covid-19.......................................6
Theme 3: Ways or strategies used to reduce the additional challenge for healthcare worker
caused by Covid-19................................................................................................................8
CASP tool for critical appraisal..............................................................................................9
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION (500).....................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

TITLE
What are the additional challenges for health care workers caused by Covid-19?
INTRODUCTION (500)
Covid-19 pandemic raises various challenges among healthcare worker in healthcare setting.
In the context with pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 is defined as new type of ribonucleic acid single
strand virus which is first discovered in Wuhan. The sign and symptoms range from the mild
upper respiratory tract infection, usually fever (82%) and cough that is about 81 % to make
severe for the acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis. In the current time, mortality of
Covid-19 that help to enhance in older adult or patient with several comorbidities such as chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis, diabetic mellitus hypertension, chronic kidney
disease and heart failure (Bartsch et. al., 2020). The major issue which is arising due to challenge
that is caused due to Covid-19 among healthcare worker. The difficulty that arise in triaging
emergency patient suspected to have the issue of Covid-19 that has major potential to enhance
the spread of disease or illness among the patient with emergency care (Paterson, et. al., 2020,
June). There are limited isolation ward and personal protective equipment that also arise
additional difficulties for healthcare worker to manage the patient. In addition, they also show
challenge situation that is well required to make elaboration with high performance in the
absence of definitive Covid-19 treatment and shows enhancement of number of cases (Boin,
Lodge, & Luesink, 2020).
Lack of knowledge of novel pathogen and pandemic that show preparedness for the control
and management of infection among healthcare worker often lead to show delay diagnosis and
treatment and also disease transmission among health care worker and poor infection control
practice (Haslam, 2021). It is also analysing that outbreak of Covid-19 show various concern
which is enhance the risk of transmission in health worker that may include clinical management
that include oxygen therapy, oxygen administration and non-invasive ventilation. Therefore, it is
also analysing that they require management of airways clearance for patient that may require
tracheal intubation (Browning et. al., 2021).
It is also analysed that healthcare worker may experience wide range of issue that is
workload due to patient admission where they require proper support and care. Due to high range
of patient admission and enhancing the patient rate in Covid-19 where healthcare worker used to
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face additional challenge which may include shortage of quality personal protective equipment,
social exclusion and discrimination, lack of incentive, absence of coordination and so on which
may show the additional challenge for the health worker when they are used to provide service to
patient with covid-19. In addition, the report well covers the additional challenge on the detailed
way which is faced by health worker due to Covid-19. Therefore, the report used to define the
course of action which is require in order to reduce and minimise the impact which is arise due to
additional challenge faced by health worker caused due to covid-19 (Chen et. al., 2021).
AIM
To understand impact of additional challenge for health care worker caused by Covid-19.
OBJECTIVE
 To analyse the role of healthcare worker in covid-19.
 To evaluate the challenges faced by healthcare worker due to Covid-19.
 To examine the ways or strategies used to reduce the additional challenge for healthcare
worker caused by Covid-19.
SEARCH STRATEGY (500)
The search strategy within the research work help to signify method or tool that used to
collect the data and information that is relevant to research topic. In context to this research
process, the topic is about exploring additional challenge faced by health worker cause due to
Covid-19 (Pierce et. al., 2020). Therefore, search strategy helps to examine the challenge which
is act as barrier for healthcare worker in order to support and provide care to the patient with
Covid-19 whether they also face issue for themselves such as facing problem of high workload,
shortage of PPE kit that is require to control the exposure of virus among them while providing
care and so on. These all information is referring as part of example that is extracted from the use
of relevant search strategy that based on research topic (Dougan et. al., 2021).
In this research work, the major of search strategy which is required for the completion of
research process on selected topic that is challenge of healthcare worker caused due to Covid-19
is well investigated. The search strategy that is undertaken are PubMed, Springer Link, Science
direct, and so on which is reliable source to gather the information for the research topic for
research work. In addition, it is well analysed that the search strategy is a part of research which
act as information tool to provide the information of source from which data is collected for the
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