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Exploring the Experience of Nurses in Providing Care to Patients With COVID-19: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused conflicts in the world health system. The role of nurses is prominent because of their close contact with patients. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of nurses in providing care to patients with COVID-19. METHODS: This phenomen...

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Autores principales: SHAHOEI, Roonak, NEMATI, Syede Mona, VALIEE, Sina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9301688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35576060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jnr.0000000000000498
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused conflicts in the world health system. The role of nurses is prominent because of their close contact with patients. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of nurses in providing care to patients with COVID-19. METHODS: This phenomenological study was conducted in 2020. Purposive sampling was used and continued until data saturation. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 nurses at Tohid Hospital, Sanandaj, Iran, all of whom had experience providing care to patients with COVID-19. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. RESULTS: The participants included four men and 10 women. Data analysis revealed four main themes (14 subthemes) related to the experience of the participants in providing care to patients with COVID-19. These themes included (a) fear (fear of being infected, fear of being a carrier, fear of the disease, and high mortality of patients), (b) compulsion (compulsion to care, being under pressure), (c) distinct experience (need for self-care, working with personal protective equipment, and ambiguity in care/treatment), and (d) sacrifice (altruism, compassion, self-sacrifice, and being proud of yourself). CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The experience of participants in caring for patients with COVID-19, in addition to the unique experience of care, was associated with fear, compulsion, and sacrifice. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the unique experience of nurses serving in COVID-19 units, it is necessary to educate and support nurses to deal effectively with this situation.
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spelling pubmed-93016882022-08-03 Exploring the Experience of Nurses in Providing Care to Patients With COVID-19: A Qualitative Study SHAHOEI, Roonak NEMATI, Syede Mona VALIEE, Sina J Nurs Res Original Articles BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused conflicts in the world health system. The role of nurses is prominent because of their close contact with patients. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of nurses in providing care to patients with COVID-19. METHODS: This phenomenological study was conducted in 2020. Purposive sampling was used and continued until data saturation. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 nurses at Tohid Hospital, Sanandaj, Iran, all of whom had experience providing care to patients with COVID-19. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. RESULTS: The participants included four men and 10 women. Data analysis revealed four main themes (14 subthemes) related to the experience of the participants in providing care to patients with COVID-19. These themes included (a) fear (fear of being infected, fear of being a carrier, fear of the disease, and high mortality of patients), (b) compulsion (compulsion to care, being under pressure), (c) distinct experience (need for self-care, working with personal protective equipment, and ambiguity in care/treatment), and (d) sacrifice (altruism, compassion, self-sacrifice, and being proud of yourself). CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The experience of participants in caring for patients with COVID-19, in addition to the unique experience of care, was associated with fear, compulsion, and sacrifice. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the unique experience of nurses serving in COVID-19 units, it is necessary to educate and support nurses to deal effectively with this situation. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9301688/ /pubmed/35576060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jnr.0000000000000498 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.
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