Caring For Healthcare Professionals During COVID-19 Crisis: Integrating Simulation Training With Hospital System Towards Actualizing Occupational Safety, Health And Well-Being

Abstract

In January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concerns (PHEIC) to later, in March 11, 2020, declared it as a global pandemic, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), a densely populated city where approximately 8-million people are residing, has been at high stake of large-scale spread in the serial waves of COVID-19 attacks. Lessons that healthcare workers (HCWs, roughly defined as “medical, nursing, and patient-care or operational staff in hospital”) learned from painful experience in the battle with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have