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Coronavirus 2019 Silver Linings

Author(s) -

Amelia Santosa,

Gail Brenda Cross,

Jolene Oon,

Sophia Archuleta,

Yock Young Dan

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofaa230

Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , health care , skepticism , anxiety , empathy , toll , christian ministry , outbreak , nursing , public relations , psychiatry , disease , virology , economic growth , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , law , immunology , economics

A heightened state of alert due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was declared by the Singapore Ministry of Health on February 7, 2020. Within the hospital, team reorganizations, workflow revisions, and physical segregation caused anxiety among healthcare workers (HCWs). Fear of the unknown and emotional and physical fatigue started to take their toll on HCWs. We share our learning journey over the first 8 weeks of COVID-19: the importance of acknowledging fears and questions, and transforming them to collective knowledge; the role of empathic, hands-on leadership that brings camaraderie and calms scepticism; the importance of validating efforts and acknowledging hardship; and, most importantly, the security that comes from camaraderie, breaking down hierarchical barriers, and motivating each other to keep on going.

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