Establishment of an effective nursing team against COVID-19-a COVID-19 treatment center experience.

Background Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a serious infectious respiratory disease widespread worldwide. Nurses are the front-line staff in contact with infected patients and play a key role in treating patients and controlling the epidemic. The purpose of this study was to share our nursing team's experience in the treatment of COVID-19 and provide clinical guidance. Methods Detail nursing system arrangement was laid down: (I) reasonable division of ward channel was built; (II) effectively arranged human nursing resources and establishing special groups, including Training group, Critical patients nursing group, Quality control group, Epidemic preventive measures group, and Logistics support group; (III) optimize nursing workflow and establish various rules and regulations; (IV) scientific scheduling and humanized management; (V) pay attention to psychological support and adopt humanized management. The pre-job preparation, treatment results, and medical staff infection number were recorded. Results Fifty-four intensive care nurses all passed the training with an average score of 99.75±0.13. One patient was dead, and 22 patients were discharged smoothly. The average length of stay was 9.12 days. The medical staff was not infected. Conclusions The treatment center was set up and functioning rapidly, safely, and orderly by implementing an emergency management strategy. The goal of a high rescue rate, low mortality, and no medical staff infection was achieved. This nursing system could be applied in COVID-19 patient treatment.