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Nurses, bearing the coronavirus burden: Primary patient caregivers have fewer resources and less support than superiors

Nurses, bearing the coronavirus burden: Primary patient caregivers have fewer resources and less support than superiors 1

In ordinary times, nurses work under extraordinary circumstances. As the primary patient caregivers, they assess, plan, consult, communicate and execute care, evaluating each patient multiple times a day depending on the unit. This work is made significantly more challenging if the patient is in isolation. Nurses typically do all of this in 12-hour shifts, which sometimes do not pay well enough for them to avoid working a second job or overtime to make ends meet.

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