Updates
Omicron variant
Industry resources for health care workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented levels of continuing demand on healthcare, with nurses at the forefront.
Database content
Journal publisher content
More relevant publisher resources
Read about the experiences of healthcare workers and patients during the pandemic. The following titles may be borrowed from the library
Experiences of health workers in the COVID-19 pandemic : in their own words by 
The care factor : a story of nursing and human connection in the time of social distancing by
The Care Factor tells the story of one incredible nurse - one among many - who chose to meet an unprecedented global health crisis on the frontline. Simone Sheridan has one of the most sought-after skills today. As a nurse, her skill is to care. When Covid-19 began to spread across the world in 2020, Sim volunteered to retrain to work in Melbourne's intensive care wards. And as she prepared to go back to ICU and case numbers began climbing, Sim started talking to her friend Ailsa. Through the exhaustion, the confusion, the many tears and the surprising moments of hilarity, Sim kept talking. And Ailsa started writing. In The Care Factor, Ailsa walks behind Sim as she faces the realities of the coronavirus. The result is a deeply human account of what the pandemic has really meant, not just for Sim and her fellow health professionals, but also for their patients, their families and friends, and the many who faced life in lockdown. This is a celebration of nursing, of friendship, and of the layers of connection and care that allow us to keep going when it feels impossible.
Breathtaking : inside the NHS in a time of pandemic by
When the once-in-a-century pandemic struck, it didn't matter that it was predicted and expected - nor even that we had watched it before, playing out in multiplexes over popcorn. We ambled, half-asleep, into disaster. In the first three months of 2020, perplexity drifted into mild concern that suddenly sheered into panic. Economies nose-dived. Schools workplaces closed. Populations hid inside their homes. Whole societies shut down. In most people's living memory, no crisis had caused such global upheaval so swiftly and so comprehensively. The scale and pace of the pandemic were stunning. As a palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke found herself spending less time in the hospice and more in the hospital. Unable to convey the intensity of her days on the wards to friends and family, by night, she wrote about what she and her colleagues were going through. Breathtaking is her inside story of how the health service responded. But when she looked back over her writing, she found that what she had thought was an unrelenting stream of death and darkness was in fact illuminated by pinpricks of light. The curtailing of human contact, it seemed, was a reminder of precisely how precious it was, and just how far a little of it could go. Breathtaking depicts life, death, hope, fear, medicine at its most impotent and also at its finest, the courage of patients in enormous adversity, the stress of being torn between helping those patients and endangering your spouse and children, the long fretful nights ruminating over whether the PPE you wear fits the science or the size of the government stockpile. Faltering, fumbling, tenacious, undaunted, this is medicine in the time of corona virus.
Many different kinds of love : a story of life, death and the NHS by
Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50:50 chance.' In March 2020, Michael Rosen became unwell. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus. What followed was months on the wards: a month in an induced coma, and weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved his life, and then got him back on his feet. Throughout it all, a diary was kept at the end of Michael's bed, where his nurses wrote him letters of hope and support. And as soon as he was awake, he was ready to start writing his own story. Combining stunning new prose poems by one of Britain's best loved poets and the moving coronavirus diaries of his nurses, and featuring original illustrations by Chris Riddell, this is a beautiful book about love, life and the NHS that celebrates the power of community and the indomitable spirits of the people who keep us well.
Covid articles have now merged with all 'Health' topics
Articles: Long COVID
Journal articles
"Preparing for a COVID-19 pandemic: a review of operating room outbreak response measures in a large tertiary hospital in Singapore" by 
"Managing healthcare worker well-being in an Australian emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic" by 
"Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, resilience and depression in health professionals: a cross-sectional study" by 
"Effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines against the B. 1.617. 2 (Delta) variant. " by "Covid-19 breakthrough infections in vaccinated health care workers" by 
"Global challenges in health and health care for nurses and midwives everywhere" by 
"Nursing and the novel coronavirus: risks and responsibilities in a global outbreak" by "History in a crisis — lessons for Covid-19" by 
"Early clinical response to a high consequence infectious disease outbreak: insights from COVID‐19" by "Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID-19 adult patient group" by 
"Potential association between COVID-19 mortality and health-care resource availability" [pdf] by "Aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1" by 
"Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents" by 
COVID-19 by 
Coronavirus clinical zone by The scale of COVID-19 and the presence of misleading information requires nurses and midwives to exercise their professional responsibility to identify and spread accurate information. (Bin Naeem, Bhatti & Khan, 2020)
For more assistance finding quality articles see the Finding journal articles online library resource guide
