Autoethnography and reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic

Autoetnografía y reflexiones en la pandemia por COVID-19

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Oscar Javier Vergara-Escobar
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The COVID 19 pandemic is a global issue that not only has caused deaths and contagion, but also has affected the life of healthcare workers. For this article a narrative is performed through autoethnography, approaching the changes within a health institution generated by this situation, allowing to transfer the practice experiences to the theory and analyze situations during the assistance of infected patients. The objective is to describe some of the experiences from the professionals and nursing assistants about the assistance of patients with COVID-19 in a university hospital in Colombia and what implies the nursing care implies during a pandemic, using the metaparadigms and evidencing the impact of all these changes in people and society in general. Conclusion: The nursing professionals will always be on the first line, providing the best care experience for people, their families as well as accompanying them during the processes of birth, growth, life and death. Although there are technologies, pandemics, social issues around the globe, nursing will keep participating, expressing its feelings and transcending in the lives of people as actors of human care

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Edwin Dario Archila-Hernandez, Universidad El Bosque

Enfermero, especialista en Docencia Universitaria. Maestrando en Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas, referente de educación y calidad para la subdirección de enfermería en el Hospital Universitario de la Samaritana. Integrante del grupo de investigación Enfermería-HUS. Bogotá. Correo: edarah-96@hotmail.com

Oscar Javier Vergara-Escobar, Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas

Enfermero, especialista en Promoción de la Salud y Desarrollo Humano. Magister y Doctor en Enfermería. Integrante del grupo de Investigación GRINENC Hospital Militar Central. Profesor de la Escuela de Enfermería. Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas. Bogotá, Grupo de Investigación CUIDARTE. Correo: oscar.vergara@juanncorpas.edu.co

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