Atualização, educação permanente e continuada da enfermagem em tempo de pandemia do Covid-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, began in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China. The virus quickly spread to different countries, resulting in an unprecedented global health crisis. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the coronavirus family, which also includes other viruses such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, so its form of transmission occurs mainly through close contact with an infected person or through contact with surfaces contaminated. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on public health, the global economy and society at large. Millions of people have been infected all over the world, and many have lost their lives due to the complications caused by the disease. Health systems faced unprecedented challenges, with a shortage of hospital beds, personal protective equipment and ventilators to treat patients. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic had several significant consequences for the health system around the world, among them were observed the overload of health systems, shortage of human and material resources, interruption of health services, impact on the workforce health work, rising health costs and inequality in access to health care. In response to these consequences, health systems have implemented various measures to face the challenges presented by the pandemic, which mainly included training health professionals in this process. Given this scenario, it was noticed that many professionals were unprepared to deal with the disease, not knowing how to act or care in chaotic contexts, highlighting the need to promote permanent and continuing education for this public. In this sense, the main objective of this work is to point out nursing and its insertion contexts, focusing on the importance of permanent and continuing education for professionals, considering the covid-19 pandemic.