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Nurses Guide Microbes, towards second edition

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“There must be something in any host why the which makes the clinical picture so diverse” , Marc Bonten, medical microbiologists, Medical University Utrecht, Netherlands.     Only overtime we will truly learn what happened and is happening in the #COVID19 pandemic, these are very exciting time and can’t oversee the puzzle yet, the virus is still new and hard to predict what directions it will go and what direction to take to respond right. So many question !  But on the other hand, we can't wait to professionally anticipate pandemics again. In April 2019, the ESNO published a nursing textbook on microbes, vaccination #AMR and infection control, just during the time when the pandemic was spreading. Now, six months later, it is time for a second version, but even now, in the period that knowledge is still being acquired, publications appear and vaccinations are under development. In this 2nd version, a group of 15 European nursing experts is busy adapting the textboo...

"We're Back" about why and how the #Caring4Nurses campaign

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"We're back!" Is this what #COVID19 could have been thinking, as the world entered another global viral pandemic? While some people had been predicting a pandemic from an emerging virus for some years, no-one expected the rapid global spread of #COVID19, or the seriousness of the illness and its potential long-term effects. The health systems and the healthcare professionals providing first contact with patients had to take responsibility for patient care, even though they couldn't be fully prepared. Many of these were nurses, from those working around the clock to provide first contact with patients to those working equally hard in the background, as project leads, and in management, research and education. All of this in 2020, the #yearofthenurse. We are very pleased with the positive response to the nurses' hard work. The applause from the public, the debates on recognition of nurses' place in society, the responses from governments on pay and working condi...