id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-348038-9v16k6gi Bagnasco, Annamaria COVID 19—A message from Italy to the global nursing community 2020-05-08 .txt text/plain 1283 62 60 With the global pandemic now accelerating in areas of the world yet to see Italian levels of infection, it is vital that PPE equipment is procured and delivered to the COVID-19 front-line critical care environments. Learn also from Italian nurses' experiences of the harm long-term use of PPE: facial lesions and sores produced by the pressure and sweat caused by masks and goggles worn far beyond the usual time frame in normal clinical practice. To healthcare providers and policy makers in areas at the start of their COVID-19 epidemic, our message is to plan for the replacement of staff in critical care areasthink about how this will be done, how they can be prepared and how you plan to recall recently retired nurses back to the hospitals. One last but very important lesson from the epidemic is the need to plan for the possibility of caring for patients in their own homes. ./cache/cord-348038-9v16k6gi.txt ./txt/cord-348038-9v16k6gi.txt