Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey.

There are little data on sharps injuries among healthcare workers in West Africa despite the region's high rate of hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus. The purpose of this study is to investigate healthcare workers' history of sharps injuries in Liberia and Ghana. An electronic cross-sectional survey was conducted among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana from February to June 2022.

How Depression and Anxiety Impact Adherence to COVID-19 Prevention Practices in Urban Liberia.

Background: Understanding the relationship between mental health and COVID-19 prevention practices is crucial but challenging considering COVID-19's impact on mental well-being. Liberia, a West African country, had well-documented rates of depression and anxiety prior to COVID-19. Liberia responded aggressively to COVID-19 while case counts remained low; thus, it is an ideal setting to study the relationship of mental health and COVID-19 prevention practices.

Sharps Injuries Among Healthcare Workers in Liberia and Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Survey.

Objective: There is little data on sharps injuries among healthcare workers in West Africa, despite the region's high rate of Hepatitis B and HIV. The purpose of this study is to investigate healthcare workers' history of sharps injury in Liberia and Ghana.

Design: An electronic cross-sectional survey disseminated by local nursing, midwifery, physician assistant, and physician associations.

The Impact of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic on Registered Nurses' Intent to Stay in Nursing.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for registered nurses. Media reports, most of them anecdotal, have reported upticks in nurse resignations, and plans to resign and/or leave nursing due to COVID-19. This article reports findings from an online anonymous 95-item survey completed by about 1,600 nurses from a New York City metropolitan area health system's (HS) four hospitals and ambulatory care centers about their COVID-19 experience in the spring of 2020, their intent to stay at the HS, and their intent to stay working as a nurse.

The intellectual capital supporting nurse practice in a post-emergency state: A case study.

Aim: To explore the resources supporting current nurse practice in the post-emergency country of Liberia, using the nursing intellectual capital framework, as nurses work to meet the targets set by Government of Liberia's Essential Package of Health Services.

Design: Case study.

Methods: Data were collected in Liberia February-June 2019.

How clinicians manage routinely low supplies of personal protective equipment.

Background: Recommended personal protective equipment (PPE) is routinely limited or unavailable in low-income countries, but there is limited research as to how clinicians adapt to that scarcity, despite the implications for patients and workers.

Methods: This is a qualitative secondary analysis of case study data collected in Liberia in 2019. Data from the parent study were included in this analysis if it addressed availability and use of PPE in the clinical setting.

The psychosocial impact on frontline nurses of caring for patients with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in New York City.

Background: Infectious disease pandemics, such as COVID-19, have dramatically increased in the last several decades.

Purpose: To investigate the personal and contextual factors associated with the psychological functioning of nurses responding to COVID in the New York City area.

Method: Cross sectional data collected via a 95-item internet-based survey sent to an email list of the 7,219 nurses employed at four hospitals.

Infection Prevention and Control in Liberia 5 Years After Ebola: A Case Study.

Background: Effective management of health emergencies is an important strategy to improve health worldwide. One way to manage health emergencies is to build and sustain national capacities. The Ebola epidemic of 2014 to 2015 resulted in greater infection prevention and control (IPC) capacity in Liberia, but few studies have investigated if and how that capacity was sustained.

The Occupational Health of Nurses in the Economic Community of West African States: A Review of the Literature.

Nurses provide the majority of health care in sub-Saharan Africa, which has high rates of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This systematic review used PRISMA methodology to synthesize the literature published between January 2008 and December 2018 examining the occupational health of nurses practicing in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The United States' National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Hierarchy of Controls is used to frame the findings.

The meaning of "capacity building" for the nurse workforce in sub-Saharan Africa: An integrative review.

Background: "Capacity building" is an international development strategy which receives billions of dollars of investment annually and is utilized by major development agencies globally. However, there is a lack of consensus around what "capacity building", or even "capacity" itself, means. Nurses are the frequent target of capacity building programming in sub-Saharan Africa as they provide the majority of healthcare in that region.