Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources

Ensuring your health and safety, and that of the patients you care for, is our top priority. AACN is focused on ensuring that you have the knowledge you need to be ready to care for patients who have COVID-19 and to protect yourself from infection.

Top Clinical Resources

As hospitals across the country experience surges in patients with COVID-19, it becomes increasingly difficult to meet the usual standards of care, requiring a shift to crisis standards of care. Nurses already grappling with intense challenges at the bedside due to the pandemic are facing staffing shortages and difficult triage or allocation decisions. We’ve compiled timely clinical, advocacy and well-being content to support the ever-changing needs of our community during this time.

Help - I Am Being Asked to Work in the COVID ICU!

Have you been asked to work in an unfamiliar setting during the crisis? Here are some helpful tips for just-in-time learning.

Critical Care Nurses’ Experiences During COVID-19

Increased stress on critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic is multifactorial. This study provides insights into key areas that healthcare leaders must address to build and sustain an ICU nurse workforce.

AACN Position Statement: Ethical Triage and End-of-Life Care

The statement includes recommended action to help you and your team make well-considered decisions and provide patients with the best end-of-life care possible.

Ethical Obligations on COVID 19

This video discusses the code of ethics and how it can be used as a tool to help navigate your practice during this challenging time.

Family Presence Policy Toolkit

Do the benefits of in-person family presence outweigh the potential risks? This toolkit provides a framework to generate evidence and broaden the risk/benefit analysis of family presence under the current conditions.

COVID-19 Vaccines

Read AACN’s statement encouraging nurses to get vaccinated, and review blogs and interviews from leading clinicians to help inform your decision on where to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Resources from the Community

Pulmonary, ARDS and Ventilator Online Course

The course is designed for nurses new to the ICU setting or for nurses who need a refresher. You will be immersed in real-world ICU scenarios throughout the free online and self-paced course offering up to 4.5 CE hours. The course is divided into four modules with bite-size assignments to build confidence for safe and effective practices for patients with COVID-19.

The course is designed for learners to choose assignments based on their needs:

Assessing and managing acute respiratory failure
Caring for patients on mechanical ventilation
Intubation, weaning and extubation
Analyzing ABGs and oxygen delivery
Accessing step-by-step procedures unique to the critical care environment, including how to suction, how to prone and ETT management (available courtesy of Elsevier Publishing Co.)

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Micro-Credential: COVID-19 Pulmonary and Ventilator Care

Validate your knowledge to care for mechanically ventilated patients through our new micro-credential, based on the free course “COVID-19 Pulmonary, ARDS and Ventilator Resources.”

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AACN’s Bold Voice and the Staffing Crisis

The sustained and extreme demands of the pandemic are causing nurses to move away from hospital settings in record numbers. AACN is working with leading organizations and government entities to find solutions and develop strategies that address the crisis in acute and critical care staffing.

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Well-Being in Uncertain Times

AACN offers resources to help you consider your own well being at the same time you are providing exceptional care for your patients and their families. There are a range of AACN resources with topics of health and wellness that may be useful during times of stress or anxiety.

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COVID-19 Support Podcast Series

Coping with the changes and challenges COVID-19 brings affects us, as nurses, on many levels and in many ways. Our new podcast series features intimate conversations with guest nurses from around the country, whose COVID-19 experiences and insight help support, guide and inspire us.

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Support for the Front Line

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Relevant Resources

As you practice on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, we continually identify and curate the most relevant AACN resources that may help you in caring for these patients. The following resources — all of which are now free — address a variety of different aspects of the disease, and they are sorted for you to explore.