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Negative and positive psychological experience of frontline nurses in combatting COVID‐19: A qualitative study

AIMS: To qualitatively explore potential experience among frontline nurses who had been fighting against the COVID‐19 infection since the outbreak. BACKGROUND: Disasters are often sudden and uncertain. Since the COVID‐19 outbreak in Wuhan city, local frontline nurses had been responsible for treatme...

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Autores principales: Peng, Xin, Yang, Yi, Gao, Ping, Ren, Yi, Hu, Deying, He, Qin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8646834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34626025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13481
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author Peng, Xin
Yang, Yi
Gao, Ping
Ren, Yi
Hu, Deying
He, Qin
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Yang, Yi
Gao, Ping
Ren, Yi
Hu, Deying
He, Qin
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description AIMS: To qualitatively explore potential experience among frontline nurses who had been fighting against the COVID‐19 infection since the outbreak. BACKGROUND: Disasters are often sudden and uncertain. Since the COVID‐19 outbreak in Wuhan city, local frontline nurses had been responsible for treatment of COVID‐19 for several months. Qualitative study was required to assess complex multi‐component psychological experiences among frontline nurses. METHODS: Twenty local frontline nurses were recruited from a designated hospital of COVID‐19 treatment. We conducted semi‐structured interview using phenomenological method. Descriptive phenomenological method was applied for thematic analysis. RESULTS: Twenty female frontline nurses (aged 24 to 43 years old) were interviewed. Two broader themes, negative and positive, were identified. Negative experience included refusal and helpless (refusal to work at frontline, shortage of confidence in working and helpless), fear and anxiety, excessive miss, and other health issues. Positive experience included improved interpersonal relationship, sublimation of personal faith and strength, changes in understanding meaning of life and new possibility. CONCLUSION: Both positive and negative psychological response were observed, which can provide evidence based clues for making essential strategies and policy. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Understand subjective experience of frontline nurses can establish evidence for development of effective psychological intervention. Nursing administrator should consider the nurses' psychological experience comprehensively to promote psychological growth and lower post‐traumatic psychological burden.
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spelling pubmed-86468342021-12-06 Negative and positive psychological experience of frontline nurses in combatting COVID‐19: A qualitative study Peng, Xin Yang, Yi Gao, Ping Ren, Yi Hu, Deying He, Qin J Nurs Manag Original Articles AIMS: To qualitatively explore potential experience among frontline nurses who had been fighting against the COVID‐19 infection since the outbreak. BACKGROUND: Disasters are often sudden and uncertain. Since the COVID‐19 outbreak in Wuhan city, local frontline nurses had been responsible for treatment of COVID‐19 for several months. Qualitative study was required to assess complex multi‐component psychological experiences among frontline nurses. METHODS: Twenty local frontline nurses were recruited from a designated hospital of COVID‐19 treatment. We conducted semi‐structured interview using phenomenological method. Descriptive phenomenological method was applied for thematic analysis. RESULTS: Twenty female frontline nurses (aged 24 to 43 years old) were interviewed. Two broader themes, negative and positive, were identified. Negative experience included refusal and helpless (refusal to work at frontline, shortage of confidence in working and helpless), fear and anxiety, excessive miss, and other health issues. Positive experience included improved interpersonal relationship, sublimation of personal faith and strength, changes in understanding meaning of life and new possibility. CONCLUSION: Both positive and negative psychological response were observed, which can provide evidence based clues for making essential strategies and policy. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Understand subjective experience of frontline nurses can establish evidence for development of effective psychological intervention. Nursing administrator should consider the nurses' psychological experience comprehensively to promote psychological growth and lower post‐traumatic psychological burden. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8646834/ /pubmed/34626025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13481 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Nursing Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Peng, Xin
Yang, Yi
Gao, Ping
Ren, Yi
Hu, Deying
He, Qin
Negative and positive psychological experience of frontline nurses in combatting COVID‐19: A qualitative study
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title_fullStr Negative and positive psychological experience of frontline nurses in combatting COVID‐19: A qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Negative and positive psychological experience of frontline nurses in combatting COVID‐19: A qualitative study
title_short Negative and positive psychological experience of frontline nurses in combatting COVID‐19: A qualitative study
title_sort negative and positive psychological experience of frontline nurses in combatting covid‐19: a qualitative study
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8646834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34626025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13481
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