Alabama Nurse - November 2020
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Resolution<br />
Support of LTC Health Care Providers<br />
Whereas: <strong>Nurse</strong>s and other health care providers are<br />
precluded from providing comprehensive wrap around care due<br />
to the demands of the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 in<br />
LTC institution; and<br />
Whereas: Residents in LTC institutions are experiencing<br />
declines in health due to lack of stimulation, socialization, and<br />
isolation; and<br />
Whereas: There is a documented lack of PPE in many LTC<br />
institutions thus impacting the health of both providers and<br />
residents; and<br />
Whereas: <strong>Nurse</strong>s, as well as other health care providers, are<br />
experiencing extraordinary stress due to the changed demands<br />
in the workplace; and<br />
Whereas: ASNA has surveyed nurses in <strong>Alabama</strong> twice and<br />
determined an extraordinary level of stress impacting care; and<br />
Whereas: ASNA also surveyed <strong>Alabama</strong> LTC health care<br />
providers and determined the following stressors: lack of staff<br />
to provide care, lack of adequate PPE, isolation of residents<br />
resulting in decline of health, time needed for charting diverting<br />
attention away from direct patient care, loss of dignity of<br />
residents due to isolation, generalized fear, frustration in the<br />
ability to communicate with deaf residents when face masks<br />
cover the mouth; be it therefore<br />
Resolved: That ASNA partner with the <strong>Alabama</strong> Counseling<br />
Association to provide opportunities to seek listening and<br />
counseling services; be it therefore<br />
Resolved: That ASNA communicate with the <strong>Alabama</strong><br />
Nursing Home Association to collaborate on initiatives to<br />
support LTC health care providers; be it therefore<br />
Resolved: ASNA distribute information about Emotional<br />
PPE.org which provides free confidential counseling to nurses<br />
and other health care providers in collaboration with the<br />
<strong>Alabama</strong> Counseling Association; be it therefore<br />
Resolved: ASNA distribute information about Project<br />
Respite which provides free confidential listening to nurses and<br />
other health care providers in collaboration with the <strong>Alabama</strong><br />
Counseling Association.<br />
Submitted by Drs. Lindsey Harris, Frankie Wallis, Arlene<br />
Morris, and The <strong>Alabama</strong> Counseling Association
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