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Journal of Integrative Nursing ›› 2020, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (4): 207-210.doi: 10.4103/jin.jin_53_20

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Nursing administration in the geriatric department in the epidemic of COVID‑19

Hui FAN1, Pei-Bei DUAN2, Cai-Yun NIE1, Chun-Xia MA1   

  1. 1 Department of Geriatric; 2 Department of Nursing, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
  • Received:2020-08-18 Revised:2020-09-22 Accepted:2020-09-30 Online:2020-12-30 Published:2020-12-30
  • Contact: Dr. Pei-Bei DUAN, Department of Nursing, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 155 Hanzhong Road, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province, China. E-mail:dpb_58@163.com

Abstract: In order to strengthen the prevention and management in the geriatric department during the pandemic of COVID-19 and to explore how to implement nursing measures to control the spread of COVID-19 to elderly patients, our geriatric department established a leading group for epidemic prevention to train the medical staffs, the patients and caregivers and implemented a set of measures such as controlling the source of infection, cutting off the transmission route, and rehabilitation nursing of Chinese medicine, thus achieved zero infection of medical staff and elderly patients.