Converting an Inpatient Nursing Unit to a Pandemic-Response Unit: Lessons Learned.

ABSTRACT

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention and the Department of Nursing used lessons-learned during COVID-19 as a foundation to create a framework to be used as a guide for converting an inpatient unit to a pandemic-response unit. This article provides details of this framework and other lessons learned that can be applied to other pandemic pathogens.