Open AccessHealth Disparity, Natural Disaster, and COVID-19
Author(s) -
Breanne R Levarity
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
holistic nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.363
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1550-5138
pISSN - 0887-9311
DOI - 10.1097/hnp.0000000000000478
Subject(s) - natural disaster , covid-19 , call to action , action (physics) , psychology , natural (archaeology) , medicine , geography , business , disease , virology , physics , pathology , marketing , quantum mechanics , meteorology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology
Trauma clusters are formed when 2 or more disasters occur simultaneously and/or consecutively. These disasters have the propensity to potentiate health disparities. The purpose of this article is to share thoughts about critical caring theory and how the theory can inform holistic nursing action when health disparity amplifies trauma clustering.