Video / Mark Mitchell / Michael Craig / Mike ScottBy Rowan Quinn of RNZAuckland's hospitals are asking others around the country to send intensive care nurses to help them cope with the Covid outbreak. The highly specialised nurses provide round-the-clock, one-on-one care, and without them patients cannot be moved into intensive care. It was estimated 30 nurses with ICU training were needed in Auckland to help in the outbreak, with another 30 to help in managed isolation facilities. College of Critical Care Nurses chair Tania Mitchell said the country's intensive care units often work together and support each other. ‌They would be used for non-Covid work to free up the existing nurses to concentrate on Covid patients, she said.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 01, 2021 08:15 UTC