Professional Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study to Assess the Impact of the Global Pandemic Covid-19 on Nurse Practitioners in Ge

Title : Professional Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study to Assess the Impact of the Global Pandemic Covid-19 on Nurse Practitioners in Ge

Abstract:

COVID-19 has put healthcare professionals under immense pressure and hindered their ability to provide quality services. A ProQOL survey demonstrated increased burnout and secondary traumatic stress among frontline practitioners in Georgia due to increased workloads, feelings of inadequacy, fear of being infected by the virus, and prolonged exposure to deaths.

Biography:

Dr. Noushin Vastani has recently taken on a dual role at Brenau University as the Graduate Clinical Coordinator and Professor of Nursing for Mary Inez Grindle School of Nursing, Ivester College of Health Sciences as of March 2020.  She is actively serving as a board member in the CCNE Committee at Brenau University. During the first few months in her new role -she served as the lead working with SYNERGIS to develop the Nursing Course Buildout (NG 746). Noushin has served in various capacities throughout her 12 -year career in health care and nursing which include indirect/direct patient care in the Emergency Room, ICU, CCU and Emergency Step Down, as well as being an ER Charge Nurse, and Assistant Nurse Manager. Currently she is practicing as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse/ Family Nurse Practitioner in Urgent Care. Noushin is a member of several health related organizations, including the American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau International and American Association of Nurse Practitioners. In 2019, Todays Nurse recognized her as a “Top Family Nurse Practitioner in Suwanee Georgia”. Noushin received her formal education from Waubonsie Community College (Associates Degree in Nursing), Mercer University (Bachelors of Science in Nursing), Family Nurse Practitioner and Masters of Science of Nursing- Graduated with Honors (Brenau University) and has now graduated with honors and has earned her degree in the Doctorates of Nursing at Brenau University. She has two beautiful children – 11, and 9. She is very passionate about helping and caring for others and feels it should be the foundation for our giving. Noushin feels it’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.