Know you are loved : hope and tragedy in NHS hospital as Covid vaccine launched Jonny Weeks
As Margaret Keenan, 90, was being discharged from University hospital in Coventry this month, hand-in-hand with her daughter and grandson, she carried a newspaper with the headline: “One small jab for Maggie, one giant leap for all of us.”
“You’re so famous they’re comparing you to the astronauts who walked on the moon!” one nurse quipped.
The previous day, at 6.31am, Keenan had become the first clinical patient in the world to receive the initial dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. “Yesterday was a massive day for me and for the rest of the world as we all look to get back to some sort of normality,” she said.
Among the new projects to receive funding is the CANDID study, which will look at the impact of Covid-19 on critical care and redeployed nurses, focusing on work-place stress.
University of Aberdeen researchers will use a model of occupational stress called Job Demand Resources to better understand stress in nurses working in critical care during the pandemic.
For the study, nurses working in 23 adult critical care units in Scotland and England will be asked to complete a questionnaire and take part in an in-depth interview.
A second study, by the Bradford Institute for Health Research, will look at the impact of redeployment during Covid-19 on nurse wellbeing, performance and retention.
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Care home staff receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at Bradley Manor residential care home in Belfast (Image: PA)
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