COVID-19 Module and Resources
ThingLink is an interactive educational platform for communicating evidence-based information for nurses. The ThingLink module listed below addresses key concepts and clinical strategies to help nurses, faculty, and students to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. ThinkLink modules provide access to important documents and resources without the user having to search multiple websites.
Nurses should click on the icon on the left of each topic to work through the steps of this module. The COVID-19 ThingLink module can be downloaded and remixed without permission.
If you have websites you believe should be added email rlavin@utk.edu.
Federal Government
- National Institutes of Health: Coronavirus is an Emergency, Rapidly Evolving Situation
- CDC: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Nursing Organization
- American Academy of Nursing
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Nurses Association
- Emergency Nurses Association
- New York State Nursing Association
State Boards of Nursing Temporary Actions and Executive Orders
- NSCBN Link to Regulatory Waivers related to COVID-19
- Alabama
- California
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- New York
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wyoming
Volunteer Resources
Peer-Reviewed Literature and Research
- A cluster-randomized trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers
- Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center
- Nurses and COVID-19: Into the Battle with All That We Have and All That We Lack
- NIH: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Case Counts
- Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
- World Health Organization
- CDC Reported Cases in the U.S.
PPE/Supplies
- ENA Strategic National Stockpile Ventilators Recording
- CDC Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Burn Rate Calculator
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) COVID-19 Resources
- Emory University School of Medicine Conserving PPE
- NETEC: Personal Protective Equipment for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Shortage of personal protective equipment endangering health workers worldwide
- ASPR COVID-19 Healthcare Planning Checklist
- CDC – Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators
- Conserving PPE during COVID-19 effective Mar 18, 2020
Homemade Mask Instructions
- Interim Guidance on Homemade Facemasks
- homemade mask pattern and instructions