ArticleJournal of nursing management2021
Intensive care unit nurses living through COVID-19: A qualitative study.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- Experiences of team collaboration among intensive care nurses during COVID-19: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Experiences of intensive care unit nurses working with COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Experiences and needs of front-line nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Exploration of Turkish ICU Nurses' care experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2026Article
- Alone on an Island: Experiences and Needs of Intensive Care Unit Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Focused Ethnography.Nursing open · 2025Article
- Existential Anxiety of Nurses in the COVID-19-Virus Units and Its Relation With Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth.Health science reports · 2025Article
- [Lessons from the COVID-19-Pandemic : Experiences of critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative explorative study].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025Article
- Construction of an Index System of the Biosafety Incident Response Capability for Nursing Staff: A Delphi Study.Nursing open · 2025Article
- The Challenges of Advance Care Planning for Acute Care Registered Nurses.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2024Article
- "Who Takes Care of Carers?": Experiences of Intensive Care Unit Nurses in the Acute Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Examination of the role of the rotating nursing department in the training of nursing staff based on SWOT analysis.Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine · 2024Article
- Scarce resources, public health and professional care: the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating bioethical conflicts - findings from global qualitative expert interviews.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis.Nursing ethics · 2023Article
- Intensive Care Nurses' Experience of Caring in Greece; A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Factors that contributed to burnout among intensive care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia: A constructivist grounded theory.Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses · 2023Article
- Reconfiguring the social organization of work in the intensive care unit: Changed relationships and new roles during COVID-19.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Becoming futile: the emotional pain of treating COVID-19 patients.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Article
- Intensive Care Managers' Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Dramatic Change of the Intensive Care Landscape.Journal of nursing management · 2023Article
- Prevalence of common adverse events experienced following COVID-19 vaccination and its associated factors in Ghana: Cross-sectional study design.Health science reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimsTo understand how nurses experience providing care for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in intensive care units.
backgroundAs hospitals adjust staffing patterns to meet the demands of the pandemic, nurses have direct physical contact with ill patients, placing themselves and their families at physical and emotional risk.
methodsFrom June to August 2020, semi-structured interviews were conducted. Sixteen nurses caring for COVID-19 patients during the first surge of the pandemic were selected via purposive sampling. Participants worked in ICUs of a quaternary 1,000-bed hospital in the Northeast United States. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, identifiers were removed, and data were coded thematically.
resultsOur exploratory study identified four themes that describe the experiences of nurses providing care to patients in COVID-19 ICUs during the first surge: (a) challenges of working with new co-workers and teams, (b) challenges of maintaining existing working relationships, (c) role of nursing leadership in providing information and maintaining morale and (d) the importance of institutional-level acknowledgement of their work.
conclusionsAs the pandemic continues, hospitals should implement nursing staffing models that maintain and strengthen existing relationships to minimize exhaustion and burnout. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: To better support nurses, hospital leaders need to account for their experiences caring for COVID-19 patients when making staffing decisions.
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