Kyle Disney
6:46pmMay 22 at 6:46pm
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Texas: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/covid-19-coronavirus-disease-2019/texas-covid-19-dataLinks to an external site.
Between March 2020 and May 10th, 2023, when Texas stopped reporting on COVID-19 cases and death, Texas had amassed 6,677,164 reported cases and 92,378 deaths (Texas Health and Human Services, 2023). Most state’s departments of health agreed to approach COVID-19 using the same epidemiologic approach of surveillance, using the term person under investigation (PUI) for COVID-19. Once state’s began tracking these PUIs, trends became clearer, and it became easier to monitor where COVID-19 outbreaks were occurring from and even how. Using this method of developed surveillance, states’ health departments were able to fight COVID-19 significantly better (McGovern et al., 2021). Texas employed this route and quickly found that some counties were much more inclined to COVID-19 infection and fatality rates than others. Texas began seeking solutions to lowering the infection rates of these places, as they clearly noticed problematic trends occurring (Khose et al, 2020). Such epidemiological approaches on how to counter the rapidly spreading disease yielded such precautions as social isolation, increasing sanitation, and quarantine measures. Once the who, what, when, and how questions were better answered, treatment plans and preventative approaches were then established (Khachfe et al., 2020). APRNs must always remain current on best and evidence-based practices related to disease treatments and diagnosis. COVID-19 is no exception to this, as it quickly throttled the career of many existing or new APRNs. The scope of practice for many APRNs was even changed due to the extreme demands some hospitals experienced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing APRNs to do more procedures than normal, due to need. Thus, this required APRNs to be aware of a constantly evolving field of practice. This is simply one recent example of how APRNs must use a multifaceted approach that heeds ongoing updates to evidence-based practice. APRNs currently working in practice should review resources periodically to ensure that they are able to fully use policy change for improving patient care and their own practice (Diez-Sampedro et al., 2020).
References
Diez-Sampedro, A., Gonzalez, A., Delgado, V., Flowers, M., Maltseva, T., & Olenick, M. (2020). COVID-19 and advanced practice registered nurses: Frontline update. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 16(8), 551-555. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.nurpra.2020.06.014
Khachfe, H. H., Chahrour, M., Sammouri, J., Salhab, H., Makki, B. E., & Fares, M. (2020). An epidemiological study on COVID-19: A rapidly spreading disease. Cureus, 12(3), e7313. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7313
Khose, S., Moore, J. X., & Wang, H. E. (2020). Epidemiology of the 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 in the State of Texas: The first month of community spread. Journal of Community Health, 45(4), 696-701. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10900-020-00854-4
McGovern, O. L., Stenger, M., Oliver, S. E., Anderson, T. C., Isenhour, C., Maludin, M. R., Williams, N., Griggs, E., Bogere, T., Edens, C., Curns, A. T., Lively, J. Y., & Zhou, Y. (2021). Demographic, clinical, and epidemiologic characteristics of persons under investigation for Coronavirus Disease 2019—United States, January 17–February 29, 2020. PLOS One, 16(4), e0249901. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249901
Texas Health and Human Services. (2023). Historical Texas COVID-19 Data. Texas Department of State Health Services. https://www.dshs.texas.gov/covid-19-coronavirus-disease-2019/texas-covid-19-data
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