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Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies

OBJECTIVES: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses are at the forefront of fighting and treating the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and are often directly exposed to this virus and at risk of disease, due to their direct care for infected patients. This study aims to synthesize the experiences of IC...

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Autores principales: Nikbakht Nasrabadi, Alireza, Abbasi, Soheila, Mardani, Abbas, Maleki, Maryam, Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9710282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36466502
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1034624
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author Nikbakht Nasrabadi, Alireza
Abbasi, Soheila
Mardani, Abbas
Maleki, Maryam
Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko
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description OBJECTIVES: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses are at the forefront of fighting and treating the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and are often directly exposed to this virus and at risk of disease, due to their direct care for infected patients. This study aims to synthesize the experiences of ICU nurses working with COVID-19 patients. METHODS: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies were undertaken. A systematic literature search in four databases, including Web of Sciences, Scopus, Embase, and PubMed (including Medline), was performed. Original qualitative studies and the qualitative section of mixed method studies, written in English, which focused on the experiences of only ICU nurses working with COVID-19 patients, were included. RESULTS: Seventeen qualitative studies and two mixed-method studies were included in the review. As a result of the inductive content analysis, six main categories were identified, as follows: “distance from holistic nursing,” “psychosocial experiences,” “efforts for self-protection and wellbeing,” “organizational inefficiency,” “job burnout,” and “emerging new experiences in the workplace.” CONCLUSIONS: The findings from this study suggest that healthcare authorities and policymakers can facilitate the provision of high-quality patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic through appropriate planning to provide adequate support and training, prevent shortages of nursing staff and equipment, and provide adequate attention to the psychological needs and job satisfaction of ICU nurses. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=256070, identifier: CRD42021256070.
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spelling pubmed-97102822022-12-01 Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies Nikbakht Nasrabadi, Alireza Abbasi, Soheila Mardani, Abbas Maleki, Maryam Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko Front Public Health Public Health OBJECTIVES: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses are at the forefront of fighting and treating the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and are often directly exposed to this virus and at risk of disease, due to their direct care for infected patients. This study aims to synthesize the experiences of ICU nurses working with COVID-19 patients. METHODS: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies were undertaken. A systematic literature search in four databases, including Web of Sciences, Scopus, Embase, and PubMed (including Medline), was performed. Original qualitative studies and the qualitative section of mixed method studies, written in English, which focused on the experiences of only ICU nurses working with COVID-19 patients, were included. RESULTS: Seventeen qualitative studies and two mixed-method studies were included in the review. As a result of the inductive content analysis, six main categories were identified, as follows: “distance from holistic nursing,” “psychosocial experiences,” “efforts for self-protection and wellbeing,” “organizational inefficiency,” “job burnout,” and “emerging new experiences in the workplace.” CONCLUSIONS: The findings from this study suggest that healthcare authorities and policymakers can facilitate the provision of high-quality patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic through appropriate planning to provide adequate support and training, prevent shortages of nursing staff and equipment, and provide adequate attention to the psychological needs and job satisfaction of ICU nurses. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=256070, identifier: CRD42021256070. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9710282/ /pubmed/36466502 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1034624 Text en Copyright © 2022 Nikbakht Nasrabadi, Abbasi, Mardani, Maleki and Vlaisavljevic. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Abbasi, Soheila
Mardani, Abbas
Maleki, Maryam
Vlaisavljevic, Zeljko
Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
title Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
title_full Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
title_fullStr Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
title_full_unstemmed Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
title_short Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
title_sort experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with covid-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9710282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36466502
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1034624
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