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Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Healthcare professionals have played a fundamental role in managing and controlling the COVID-19 health crisis. They are exposed to high levels of suffering, trauma, uncertainty, and powerlessness in the workplace. The objective of this study was to explore and understand experie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35840275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2022.151603 |
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author | Sánchez-Romero, Sheila Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores Fernández-Medina, Isabel María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte, María del Rocío Ramos-Márquez, María Ortega-Galán, Ángela María |
author_facet | Sánchez-Romero, Sheila Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores Fernández-Medina, Isabel María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte, María del Rocío Ramos-Márquez, María Ortega-Galán, Ángela María |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIM: Healthcare professionals have played a fundamental role in managing and controlling the COVID-19 health crisis. They are exposed to high levels of suffering, trauma, uncertainty, and powerlessness in the workplace. The objective of this study was to explore and understand experiences of suffering among primary care and hospital care nurses during the COVID-19 health crisis. DESIGN: This is a descriptive qualitative study. Between March and April 2021, 19 in-depth interviews were carried out with nurses at health and social care facilities and hospitals in southern Spain. ATLAS.ti 9.0 software was used for discourse analysis. RESULTS: Nurses reported that they had experienced suffering during their work in the pandemic. The main causes suggested were direct contact with patients' suffering and organisational difficulties. The repercussions are in emotional dimension and physical deterioration and social isolation. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Given the circumstances, programmes to promote healthy, compassion-based behaviours and changes to the way in which professionals' suffering is handled must be implemented by healthcare facility managers. Nursing leaders should consider the management of suffering as a matter of the first order, both from the ethical point of view and the business profitability and make compassionate leadership. |
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spelling | pubmed-92259612022-06-24 Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study Sánchez-Romero, Sheila Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores Fernández-Medina, Isabel María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte, María del Rocío Ramos-Márquez, María Ortega-Galán, Ángela María Appl Nurs Res Article BACKGROUND AND AIM: Healthcare professionals have played a fundamental role in managing and controlling the COVID-19 health crisis. They are exposed to high levels of suffering, trauma, uncertainty, and powerlessness in the workplace. The objective of this study was to explore and understand experiences of suffering among primary care and hospital care nurses during the COVID-19 health crisis. DESIGN: This is a descriptive qualitative study. Between March and April 2021, 19 in-depth interviews were carried out with nurses at health and social care facilities and hospitals in southern Spain. ATLAS.ti 9.0 software was used for discourse analysis. RESULTS: Nurses reported that they had experienced suffering during their work in the pandemic. The main causes suggested were direct contact with patients' suffering and organisational difficulties. The repercussions are in emotional dimension and physical deterioration and social isolation. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Given the circumstances, programmes to promote healthy, compassion-based behaviours and changes to the way in which professionals' suffering is handled must be implemented by healthcare facility managers. Nursing leaders should consider the management of suffering as a matter of the first order, both from the ethical point of view and the business profitability and make compassionate leadership. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-08 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9225961/ /pubmed/35840275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2022.151603 Text en © 2022 The Authors 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 | Article Sánchez-Romero, Sheila Ruiz-Fernández, María Dolores Fernández-Medina, Isabel María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte, María del Rocío Ramos-Márquez, María Ortega-Galán, Ángela María Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study |
title | Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study |
title_full | Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study |
title_short | Experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive qualitative study |
title_sort | experiences of suffering among nursing professionals during the covid-19 pandemic: a descriptive qualitative study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35840275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2022.151603 |
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