隐藏和不足:探索加拿大医学实验室技术人员的流行病压力因素和经验教训
Patricia Nicole Dignos1, Ayesha Khan1, Michael Gardiner-Davis1
1Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
|October 28, 2023
概括
医疗实验室技术人员 (MLT) 面临着严重的流行病挑战,包括影响健康和患者护理的员工短缺. 学到的经验教训可以提高医疗保健准备能力和劳动力的可持续性.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健 医疗保健 医疗保健 医疗保健
- 医学实验室科学 医学实验室科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19的流行,医疗实验室技术人员 (MLT) 在医疗保健系统中的重要作用得到了强调.
- 由于前所未有的流行病需求,MLT所面临的挑战存在重大知识差距,导致劳动力短缺.
- 这项研究调查了MLT压力因素以及加拿大学到的与大流行有关的经验教训.
研究的目的:
- 为了识别和理解在COVID-19大流行期间加拿大的MLTs所经历的特定压力因素.
- 探索 MLT 的生活经验,并提取宝贵的经验教训.
- 为解决劳动力短缺和提高准备能力的战略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 采用了一种描述性的定性研究设计.
- 与加拿大各地的MLT进行了五个半结构化的焦点小组.
- 对转录的焦点组数据进行主题分析,确定了关键主题.
主要成果:
- 在参加的27个MLT中,出现了四个主要主题.
- 挑战包括应对大流行的不确定性,以及员工短缺对健康和患者护理的影响.
- 该研究强调了MLT的重要,但往往未被认可的作用,并确定了改善医疗保健实践和应急准备的机会.
结论:
- 这项研究为加拿大大流行期间的MLT经验提供了深入的见解.
- 提供了建议,以加强实验室工作人员的可持续性和MLT应对未来卫生紧急情况的弹性.
- 讨论了应对 MLT 职业中关键人员短缺的策略.
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