The POI is Post traumatic stress disorder in nursing. COVID-19 pandemic has placed healthcare workers under enormous amount of stress. Many healthcare workers did not know how to deal with PTSD and lost interest in the medical field. Some healthcare workers were experience PTSD even before COVID-19, but COVID-19 brought PTSD more to the light in healthcare. Not only were healthcare workers, experiencing PTSD, but patients as well. I would like to further investigate this topic as a covid ICU/ER nurse way to help healthcare workers and patients cope and deal with PTSD.
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