Knowledge and Medical Worker Health Security Management During a Pandemic COVID-19

• Main Author: Albrychiewicz-Słocińska, Anna
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Age; Centuries; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Employment; Health care industry; Knowledge; Labor shortages; Medical profession; Medical research; Midwifery; Nurses; Pandemics; Personnel policies; Security management; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Viral diseases; Viruses; Work environment; Workers; Working conditions
• ISSN: 2048-8963; 2048-8971
• DOI: 10.34190/EKM.21.072

Successive waves of the pandemic observed in Europe and around the world demonstrate the dramatic working conditions of medical staff. Constant exposure to dangerous SARS-Cov-2 virus undoubtedly affects the medical community's sense of security in terms of functioning in the workplace. The year 2020 demonstrated the unstable condition of information-related conditions that we live in. In an age of near-instant communication in the form of the Internet and other types of communicators, citizens received various, most often contradictory and untrue information concerning the virus, the pandemic conditions, and the principles of safe functioning in them. It seems, however, that medical specialists, due to their education and occupations, are among the best prepared in terms of knowledge, out of all professions. In addition to knowledge concerning the virus itself, these specialists also understand where to look for reliable information concerning the latest scientific reports on the pandemic. The article aims to present the views of medical workers regarding their sense of health security in relation to access to knowledge and information about the COVID-19 pandemic and their functioning in the work environment. The results of the research reveal positive dependencies between the access of knowledge and information and healthcare professionals sense of health security.