Training satisfaction and future employment consideration among physician and nursing trainees at rural Veterans Affairs facilities in the United States during COVID-19: a time-series before and after study.

Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic limited healthcare professional education and training opportunities in rural communities. Because the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has robust programs to train clinicians in the United States, this study examined VA trainee perspectives regarding pandemic-related training in rural and urban areas and interest in future employment with the VA.

Methods: Survey responses were collected nationally from VA physicians and nursing trainees before and after COVID-19 (2018 to 2021).

Veterans Affairs Training Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic-Trainee Satisfaction and Interest in Future Veterans Affairs Employment: A National Survey.

Introduction: The emergence of COVID-19 caused a sudden, unexpected disruption in the clinical training experiences of nurse trainees at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest clinical training setting in the US for nurses.

Purpose: To understand associations between COVID-19 and nurse trainees' satisfaction with their training experiences and the likelihood that they would consider future VA employment.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was used to assess 7,890 nurse responses from the VA's Trainee Satisfaction Survey for academic years 2018-2021.

Dental and dental hygienist trainee satisfaction with their veterans affairs clinical training experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly altered dental practice, training, and education. This study investigates the pandemic's impacts on the clinical training experiences of dental and dental hygienist trainees at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Methods: Using data from post-doctoral general practice dentists, dental specialists, and dental hygienist trainees who completed the VA Trainee Satisfaction Survey before and during COVID-19, we performed logistic regression and thematic content analyses to determine whether COVID-19 was associated with training satisfaction and likelihood of considering future VA employment.

Culture of Safety and Preparedness: Benefits of Applying a Daily Mitigation Mindset in the Hospital Setting.

Aim: Utilizing the subjective experience of nurse executives who have supervised nurses during a major disaster in a hospital setting, this study aims to describe the subjective experience of nurse executives (NE) who have supervised nurses' responses to major disasters. This paper will focus on strategies to support nursing response to disasters, specifically to strengthen resiliency and the ability to maintain function despite the shock of a disaster, including those caused by climate change.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 hospital-based nurse executives who supervised nurses during some of the worst natural and human-made disasters in different regions of the United States.

Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic on VA Resident and Fellow Training Satisfaction and Future VA Employment: A Mixed Methods Study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic altered learning experiences of residents and fellows worldwide, including at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Because the VA is the largest training provider in the United States, understanding VA trainee experiences is vital to understanding the pandemic's impact on graduate medical education nationwide. Additionally, understanding the pandemic's potential impacts on future employment allows for a better understanding of any future disruptions in the supply of physicians.

Nurse Executive Experiences With COVID-19: Now We Know-We Are Not Going Back.

We conducted semistructured telephone interviews with 2 hospital-based nurse leaders who supervised nurses during the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in northeastern region of the United States. These interviews are a subset of a larger study with 11 nurse executives who supervised nurses during both natural and human-made disasters in different regions of the United States. Qualitative data were analyzed using a grounded theory approach, followed by a content analysis of emerging themes.

Hospitals Providing Temporary Emergency Department Services in Alternative Care Settings After Hurricane Sandy.

This article reports findings of a qualitative study describing how the US Department of Veterans Affairs cared for vulnerable veterans after Hurricane Sandy while medical center was closed for an extended period. This experience highlights how vulnerable patients continued to need care. Hospital preparedness planning efforts focus primarily on sheltering in place and evacuation.

From Brainstorming to Strategic Plan: The Framework for the Society for the Advancement of Disaster Nursing: A Work in Progress.

Professional health care societies play a critical role in promoting excellence in patient care, educating and certifying their members on evidence-based practices, and pursuing relevant research agendas to advance the science in the field. Disaster nursing is a subspecialty of professional nursing characterized by a unique knowledge base and set of skills and abilities not used in normal daily health care activities. A disaster or large-scale public health emergency creates a sudden, unanticipated surge of patients with health care needs that far exceeds the capacity of the health care system.

Supporting Staff Through a Complete Hospital Evacuation and Extended Displacement Period.

Complete hospital evacuations due to natural or man-made disasters can have repercussions on all levels of hospital operations. An extended displacement period following an evacuation exacerbates the situation. Retaining a healthy, employed workforce following a disaster is a crucial step in ensuring that a facility is effectively staffed when it returns to normal operations.

Telehealth at the US Department of Veterans Affairs after Hurricane Sandy.

Background: Like other integrated health systems, the US Department of Veterans Affairs has widely implemented telehealth during the past decade to improve access to care for its patient population. During major crises, the US Department of Veterans Affairs has the potential to transition healthcare delivery from traditional care to telecare. This paper identifies the types of Veterans Affairs telehealth services used during Hurricane Sandy (2012), and examines the patient characteristics of those users.

Personal and professional challenges confronted by hospital staff following hurricane sandy: a qualitative assessment of management perspectives.

Background: Adequate hospital staffing during and after a disaster is critical to meet increased health care demands and to ensure continuity of care and patient safety. However, when a disaster occurs, staff may become both victim and responder, decreasing their ability and willingness to report for work. This qualitative study assessed the personal and professional challenges that affected staff decisions to report to work following a natural disaster and examined the role of management in addressing staff needs and concerns.

Modeling Evacuation of a Hospital without Electric Power.

Hospital evacuations that occur during, or as a result of, infrastructure outages are complicated and demanding. Loss of infrastructure services can initiate a chain of events with corresponding management challenges. This report describes a modeling case study of the 2001 evacuation of the Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas (USA).

Evacuate or Shelter-in-place? The Role of Corporate Memory and Political Environment in Hospital-evacuation Decision Making.

Problem: Hospital-evacuation decisions are rarely straightforward in protracted advance-warning events. Previous work provides little insight into the decision-making process around evacuation. This study was conducted to identify factors that most heavily influenced the decisions to evacuate the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) New York Harbor Healthcare System's (NYHHS; New York USA) Manhattan Campus before Hurricane Irene in 2011 and before Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

Modeling hospitals' adaptive capacity during a loss of infrastructure services.

Resilience in hospitals - their ability to withstand, adapt to, and rapidly recover from disruptive events - is vital to their role as part of national critical infrastructure. This paper presents a model to provide planning guidance to decision makers about how to make hospitals more resilient against possible disruption scenarios. This model represents a hospital's adaptive capacities that are leveraged to care for patients during loss of infrastructure services (power, water, etc.