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Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic posed and continues to pose challenges for health care systems globally, particularly to Intensive Care Units (ICU). At the forefront of the ICU are highly trained nurses with a professional obligation to care for patients with COVID-19 despite the potential to beco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33139165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102946 |
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author | Lord, Heidi Loveday, Clare Moxham, Lorna Fernandez, Ritin |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic posed and continues to pose challenges for health care systems globally, particularly to Intensive Care Units (ICU). At the forefront of the ICU are highly trained nurses with a professional obligation to care for patients with COVID-19 despite the potential to become infected. The aim of this study was to explore ICU nurses’ willingness to care during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A prospective cross-sectional study to explore ICU nurses’ willingness to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic was undertaken between 25 March and 3 April 2020 at a large principal and referral teaching hospital in Sydney, NSW Australia. RESULTS: A total of 83 ICU nurses completed the survey. Approximately 60% reported receiving sufficient information from managers regarding COVID-19 and about caring for a patient with COVID-19. Ninety percent of nurses were concerned about spreading COVID-19 to their family. Sixty one percent of the nurses indicated that they were willing to care for patients with COVID-19. Receiving timely communication from managers was the only predictor of willingness to care among ICU nurses. CONCLUSIONS: Effective communication is a vital component during a public health emergency in order to promote nurses’ willingness to care for patients in the ICU. |
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spelling | pubmed-75288242020-10-02 Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Lord, Heidi Loveday, Clare Moxham, Lorna Fernandez, Ritin Intensive Crit Care Nurs Research Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic posed and continues to pose challenges for health care systems globally, particularly to Intensive Care Units (ICU). At the forefront of the ICU are highly trained nurses with a professional obligation to care for patients with COVID-19 despite the potential to become infected. The aim of this study was to explore ICU nurses’ willingness to care during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A prospective cross-sectional study to explore ICU nurses’ willingness to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic was undertaken between 25 March and 3 April 2020 at a large principal and referral teaching hospital in Sydney, NSW Australia. RESULTS: A total of 83 ICU nurses completed the survey. Approximately 60% reported receiving sufficient information from managers regarding COVID-19 and about caring for a patient with COVID-19. Ninety percent of nurses were concerned about spreading COVID-19 to their family. Sixty one percent of the nurses indicated that they were willing to care for patients with COVID-19. Receiving timely communication from managers was the only predictor of willingness to care among ICU nurses. CONCLUSIONS: Effective communication is a vital component during a public health emergency in order to promote nurses’ willingness to care for patients in the ICU. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-02 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7528824/ /pubmed/33139165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102946 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lord, Heidi Loveday, Clare Moxham, Lorna Fernandez, Ritin Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | effective communication is key to intensive care nurses’ willingness to provide nursing care amidst the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33139165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102946 |
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