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Exploring Nurses’ Working Experiences during the First Wave of COVID-19 Outbreak

During the COVID-19 outbreak, nurses employed in the clinical sector faced a number of difficulties associated with excessive workload, increased stress, and role ambiguity, which impacted nurses themselves and patient care. The aim of the present study was to investigate how Greek hospital nurses w...

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Autores principales: Stavropoulou, Areti, Rovithis, Michael, Sigala, Evangelia, Moudatsou, Maria, Fasoi, Georgia, Papageorgiou, Dimitris, Koukouli, Sofia
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9407994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10081406
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author Stavropoulou, Areti
Rovithis, Michael
Sigala, Evangelia
Moudatsou, Maria
Fasoi, Georgia
Papageorgiou, Dimitris
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Rovithis, Michael
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description During the COVID-19 outbreak, nurses employed in the clinical sector faced a number of difficulties associated with excessive workload, increased stress, and role ambiguity, which impacted nurses themselves and patient care. The aim of the present study was to investigate how Greek hospital nurses working in non-COVID units experienced the virus outbreak during the first wave of the pandemic. A descriptive qualitative research design was applied using a content analysis approach. To recruit the study participants a purposive sampling strategy was used. Ten nurses participated in the study. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews. Content analysis revealed three themes namely, (a) emotional burden, (b) professional commitment, and (c) abrupt changes. Six subthemes were formulated and assimilated under each main theme respectively. Organizational changes, emotional burdens and feelings of fear and uncertainty, appeared to have a crucial effect on nurses and patient care. However, the professional commitment and the nurses’ effort to provide excellent nursing care remained high. Nurses demonstrated that despite the burdens caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the pandemic era created opportunities for thoroughness and accuracy in nursing care.
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spelling pubmed-94079942022-08-26 Exploring Nurses’ Working Experiences during the First Wave of COVID-19 Outbreak Stavropoulou, Areti Rovithis, Michael Sigala, Evangelia Moudatsou, Maria Fasoi, Georgia Papageorgiou, Dimitris Koukouli, Sofia Healthcare (Basel) Article During the COVID-19 outbreak, nurses employed in the clinical sector faced a number of difficulties associated with excessive workload, increased stress, and role ambiguity, which impacted nurses themselves and patient care. The aim of the present study was to investigate how Greek hospital nurses working in non-COVID units experienced the virus outbreak during the first wave of the pandemic. A descriptive qualitative research design was applied using a content analysis approach. To recruit the study participants a purposive sampling strategy was used. Ten nurses participated in the study. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews. Content analysis revealed three themes namely, (a) emotional burden, (b) professional commitment, and (c) abrupt changes. Six subthemes were formulated and assimilated under each main theme respectively. Organizational changes, emotional burdens and feelings of fear and uncertainty, appeared to have a crucial effect on nurses and patient care. However, the professional commitment and the nurses’ effort to provide excellent nursing care remained high. Nurses demonstrated that despite the burdens caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the pandemic era created opportunities for thoroughness and accuracy in nursing care. MDPI 2022-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9407994/ /pubmed/36011063 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10081406 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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