Introduction

As indicated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a global pandemic can have severe adverse social and economic consequences for society. From a social perspective, the inability to properly communicate in a face to face manner can have grave implications for individual mental health and stability. For centuries, human beings have relied heavily on interacting, communicating and engaging with one another in a productive fashion. This distinctive ability allows ideas and thoughts to coalesce throughout society. From a business perspective, it has been this ability to interact that has created some of the best products and services throughout the world. Likewise, from a social perspective, there is large disruptions to traditional channels of communication and entertainment. The largest detractor is arguable that of education. Young children rely heavily on interactions with other students to learn about the world around them. They are able to learn difficult cultures, ways of thinking, along with various learning techniques. Here, this social order has been heavily disrupted as schools close, shut down, or move to a hybrid learning environment. Businesses such as bars, restaurants, concerts, and conferences where also cancelled further inhibiting social progress in society. Not only did this harm society from a social perspective but also from economic perspective (Aicardi, 2016).

The economic harm resulting for the COVID-19 pandemic is much more identifiable. Social impacts are much intangible and often can not properly measured with any certainty. Society primarily recognizes harm through the deterioration of various social networks and those areas in society that rely on them such as education. Economic figures, are the opposite, with harm being readily identifiable, analyzed, and reviewed. Here, the economic harm created from the pandemic was unquestionable. For one, the economic harm was heavily related to employee layoffs as a result of business shut downs. This business shut downs, in turn, created and rippling effect throughout the country as goods and services were not longer available. The most blatant of which occurred in the health care industry (Airth-Kindree, 2016).

Here, the combination of financial and social harm directly impacted the overall healthcare industry. From a social perspective, the inability to contain the virus meant that many healthcare personnel themselves had a strong possibility of becoming sick, thus placing further strain on the healthcare system overall. Likewise, due to the high contagion risk, certain healthcare service offerings were eliminated altogether as the risk of care was much higher than the benefit derived...…as mask, gowns, personal protective equipment, and ventilators were also in short supply. As a result, these limited resourced needed to be distributed in the manner best suited for the benefit of society. Grocery stores limited certain purchases, healthcare providers eliminated elective surgery, healthcare professionals where relocated, and business restructured their operations to produce more equipment

Significance to nursing-patient care.

As it relates to the significance of nursing-patient care, these ethical considerations have both minor and major impacts. The largest impacts will be a safety and security of both patient and nurse. As the virus continues to mutate and contagion risk becomes more pronounced, safety has become even more critical. As a result, certain procedures and safeguards must be enacted to properly alleviate these concerns. In addition, nursing-patient care could change how services are administered overall. Innovations such as telehealth and telemedicine could potentially become much more widespread throughout the industry, requiring nurses to learn a new skill set.

Conclusion- Summarize your paper and draw your conclusion.

In conclusion the COVID-19 pandemic has created a large amount of unrest both socially and economically. This unrest has resulted in large changes in how society operated along with mitigation efforts to protect society at large. This in turn has impacted the healthcare…