Care and Coping During COVID-19: Practice Changes and Innovations in the Oncology Setting

Abstract

The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2020). Since the virus was reported in the United States on January 21, 2020, there have been almost 24 million total cases and about 400,000 deaths as of this publication (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2021). There is little current evidence in the oncology nursing literature to address practice changes and innovative strategies for oncology nurses who are both coping and caring during the COVID-19 pandemic (Neal et al., 2020).