Nurse experience during the COVID-19 pandemic

Roe, Elizabeth; Decker, Sally A.; Marks, Kristine; Cook, Joyce; Garno, Kourtney; Newton, Julie; Thrush, Roberta

doi:10.1097/01.numa.0000829268.46685.bb

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“…They stated that communication with leaders was frequent but confusing. The first-level leadership was supportive, but other levels were non-appreciative 29…”

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“…The first-level leadership was supportive, but other levels were non-appreciative. 29 Theme 3 discussed 2 major personal burdens of the pandemic, which included the social distancing effect on family dynamics and cost of social status. First, social distancing helped in cutting the risks of infection but gave birth to negative social consequences such as isolation, loneliness, lack of social interaction, difficulty in finding day/ night care for children, and a distorted way in saying goodbye for the dying beloved ones.…”

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Nurses Lived Experiences, Burdens and Coping Strategies During COVID-19 Pandemic

Jarrad,

ALdasoqi,

ALnatsheh

2024

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

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This is a qualitative phenomenological study that was designed to navigate through nurses’ lived experiences, burdens, and coping strategies while working with COVID-19 patients. The sample included 20 nurses who had worked with COVID-19 patients for more than or equal to 6 months. The interviews were conducted between October 1, 2021, and April 15, 2022. At that time, the third COVID wave had elapsed, and we were peaking on a fourth pandemic wave, so included participants had lived through a minimum of 2 to 3 peaks. Six themes emerged, which were: nurses coping with COVID-19 crisis, professional relationship burden, personal burden, environmental burden, physical symptom burden, and emotional burden of the crisis. Nurses’ lived experiences during the pandemic were deep, intense, and moderately to highly affecting their ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. That experience opened nurses’ eyes on countless number of challenges that require special attention, care, and preparation on many levels. The minimal preparatory levels are personal, departmental, organizational, and strategic.

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“…They stated that communication with leaders was frequent but confusing. The first-level leadership was supportive, but other levels were non-appreciative 29…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nurses Lived Experiences, Burdens and Coping Strategies During COVID-19 Pandemic

Jarrad,

ALdasoqi,

ALnatsheh

2024

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

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“…The continuous spread of COVID-19 has aggravated inequalities between demand and supply for nurses as nurses have experienced more burnout. Several studies commonly suggested "the balance between patient and nurse needs satisfaction and exhaustion management" to help ease nurses' burnout experience during the COVID-19 pandemic [Roe, 2022]. In particular, excessive work duties and wearing nearly 3kg-protective equipment were identified to be related to increased fatigue [Liu Q, 2020;Iheduru-Anderson, 2021].…”

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Nursing Intervention Analysis in COVID-19 Negative Pressure Isolation Wards and General Wards: Observational Study

Park¹,

Lee²,

Lee³

et al. 2023

Journal of Multiculture and Education

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Introduction:With the global spread of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and public health crisis, appropriate allocation of healthcare human resources has been necessitated. Although nursing practice takes up a larger part of medical practice in hospitals, the quantitative assessment of nursing care has not been investigated for human resource allocation in the medical field. The objective of this study to explore the time spent for each nursing intervention, and compared provided amount of nursing intervention between negative pressure isolation wards (NPIWs) and general wards (GWs) provided by COVID-19 hub hospitals. Methods: This research is a time-motion (TM) observational study. Three trained external observers recorded their observations for every minute in 19 different work schedules in 2 NPIWs and 2 general respiratory wards. Observation items were chosen based on the standard operating guidelines of Integrated Nursing and Caring Services developed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and National Health Insurance Service. The average nursing workload per shift was compared by calculating the sum of the spent time of three nurses staffed in each shift in each ward between two groups. In addition, to compare the amount of directed nursing care for patients between two types of wards, nursing work category was divided into directed and undirected nursing interventions.Results: In the comparison of demographic characteristics of nursing workforce between two groups, there was no statistically significant difference (p>0.05 respectively). In both groups, the most time-consuming nursing work category was recording in three work shifts. The average duration of those work tasks was 312.5 minutes NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice.in NPIWs and 307 minutes (per 3 nurses) in GWs, having no significant difference (p>0.05). Of all nurse duties, the second most time-consuming work category was others (including changing to protective clothing) in NPIWs, and medication administration and transfusion in GWs. The mean duration of performing the category for others that include wearing PPE was 308 minutes in NPIWs and 160 minutes (per 3 nurses) in GWs, showing a significant difference (p<0.05). The greater amount of time was taken for hygiene management in isolation wards. Medication administration and transfusion and nursing assessment were more frequently performed in GWs, demonstrating a statistical significance. In the aggregated spent time for all duties including directed and undirected nursing care, the time spent for directed nursing care was 654 minutes longer in GWs than in NPIWs (per 3 nurses) in each work shift, displaying a significant difference. Conclusion:This study provides the quantitative difference in time-consuming nursing works between NPIWs and GWs by direct observation. Recording was the most time-consuming nursing work category in both NPIWs and GWs. Considering nurses in each duty in GWs provided mor...

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“…Competent nursing practice was critically brought to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic [14,15]. This rare global pandemic led to the most intense scrutiny of nursing education and preparedness across multiple settings in recent history [16,17]. Nurses' experiences, knowledge, skills, and competency to handle this novel infectious disease have been important topics of discussion in the relevant literature [11,18].…”

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Nursing Graduates’ Preparedness for Practice: Substantiating the Call for Competency-Evaluated Nursing Education

McGarity

Monahan

Acker

et al. 2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Practice readiness continues to be a challenge in healthcare. This was especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This focused descriptive–correlational study examined nurses’ perceived preparedness for practice during the pandemic. One hundred and eighty-four registered nurses (RN) responded to Qualtrics survey questions addressing the competencies they perceived they had and the competencies they felt they needed that would have better prepared them to care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results demonstrated that although these nurses felt competent in certain areas, they perceived that they needed more education in those same areas to feel better prepared. Bivariate correlations and linear regression analysis indicated that institutional competency development, education, and work experience influenced perceived competency.

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Nurse experience during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract: Results of a two-question survey of nurses at one hospital identified 5 clear themes related to nurses' experiences during the pandemic and 7 areas for improvement, providing potential strategies for nurse leaders.

Cited by 18 publications

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Nurses Lived Experiences, Burdens and Coping Strategies During COVID-19 Pandemic

Nurses Lived Experiences, Burdens and Coping Strategies During COVID-19 Pandemic

Nursing Intervention Analysis in COVID-19 Negative Pressure Isolation Wards and General Wards: Observational Study

Nursing Graduates’ Preparedness for Practice: Substantiating the Call for Competency-Evaluated Nursing Education

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