ABSTRACT
Background and Aim: Coronavirus pandemic has led to new issues in infective disease management, risk management and staffing. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that the newly adopted strategies of the hospital ward Medicina II are effective, without compromising the standard of nursing care that were in place before the pandemic. Methods: We identified all the problems regarding infective disease management, risk management and staffing, highlighting all the actions taken to mitigate them. We selected three Nursing Sensitive Outcomes (NSO) to serve as a baseline from which we could proceed with a before and after qualitative comparison. Results: Of the 3 NSOs chosen (fall risk, alcohol-based hand gel consumption rate and pain assessment), both fall risk and hand gel consumption rate showed that the standards were maintained or were improved upon after the adoption of the new strategies. Pain assessment initially showed signs of a decline when compared to the standard. As such, after an analysis of the causes, the according action were taken to rectify this. Conclusions: While the changes applied showed signs of an increase in effectiveness, more researches must be conducted to corroborate these findings and identify among all the actions taken the most incisive. This could aid in identifying and reducing health and safety restrictions that have been put in place, as these would no longer be required, thus leading to also a better acceptance from the general population.