Exploration of nursing human resource rapid allocation mechanism in non-COVID-19 designated hospitals

Abstract

Objective To explore how to rapidly allocate human resource in non-designated hospital under the situation of COVID-19 so as to satisfy the demand of epidemic situation control in-and-out hospital for nursing human resource. Methods According to the need assessments of normal workload, expected workload in epidemic situation control in hospital and workload for building the rescue team, the epidemic situation control human resource reserve was rapidly formed based on the research of original disaster nursing reserve force by three ways, allocating the disaster rescue motorized nurse reserve force, orienting allocation by Nursing Department, volunteering. The layered and progressive human resource was allocated to meet the demand of COVID-19 control for human resource at different stages. Results The reserve made up of 271 motorized nurses was built by Nursing Department within 24 hours; 71 nurses were urgently allocated to the Outpatient and Emergency Department, Fever Outpatient, Department of Infectious Disease, medical team supporting Wuhan, Intensive Care Unit by 5 batches which satisfied the demand of epidemic situation control in non-COVID-19 designated hospital and building medical staff supporting Wuhan for nursing human resource. Conclusions Layered and progressive human resource emergency allocation can effectively shorten the time of human resource emergency reaction in emergency public health event and improve the working efficiency. Key words: Nursing administration research; COVID-19; Workforce; Emergent allocation