Clinical faculty at the School of Nursing and Health Studies not only teach, conduct research, and publish. They also practice as clinicians in South Florida, as well as globally as part of the school's hemispheric and global initiatives and its designation as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre.
Drs. Johis Ortega and Juan M. González, in addition to their faculty and administrative leadership roles at SONHS, are advanced practice nurses specializing in emergency department critical care in Miami, where they serve an adult population of all ages, genders, races, and nationalities. On a typical shift in the ED, they see cases of cardiac arrest, stroke, diabetes, infection, and injuries.
But in early March, everything changed. The coronavirus arrived in Miami.
"In this unprecedented time, we honor the nurses who are so courageously caring for patients on the front lines of the global coronavirus pandemic," said SONHS Dean Cindy L. Munro, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FAAAS. "They exemplify the spirit of the WHO's International Year of the Nurse and Midwife."
Recently, Ortega, PhD, APRN, ACNP-BC, ENP-BC, FAAN, and González, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, CEN, shared their experiences providing emergency care in this new world for a series produced by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization.
You can read their first-hand account, Nursing in the Time of COVID-19, on the PAHO/WHO site in English and Spanish.
As a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Human Resources Development and Patient Safety, the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies is committed to collaborating with its global partners to promote nursing education, research, leadership, and health care workforce development in the Americas.
