Letters to the Editor: A COVID-19 advisory board without nurses won't do much good

As a retired intensive care unit registered nurse, I couldn’t agree more that nursing input at this juncture would be an asset.

So far, nurses have had to strike to ask for more protective equipment and better working conditions. It breaks my heart knowing they have had inadequate protection when treating coronavirus patients. It is the nurses who run the daily activities of most hospital units and are at the front lines of assessing patient care. Many doctors understand this and respect nurses’ contribution to patient care.Perhaps Biden’s “preeminent public health experts” will recognize nursing expertise and insist nurses are included on their team. Our country needs them, and we need to give them respect and recognition they deserve.

Any board or task force trying to analyze and improve care that does not include the expertise of nurses is frankly incompetent to do its work.The writer chairs the department of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

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