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Critical Care Nurses' Experiences Caring for Patients When Relatives Were not Allowed in the ICUs due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Persistent Changes of Nurses' Practices and Working Conditions in High Acuity Settings in the Post-Pandemic Era: A Qualitative Meta-Aggregation.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of restricted family presence during the COVID-19 pandemic on critically ill patients, families, and critical care clinicians: a qualitative systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- The Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Hospital Visitation Bans in the COVID-19 Era.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Impact of COVID-19-related restricted family presence policies on Canadian pediatric intensive care unit clinicians: a qualitative study.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Article
- Coping in times of disruption and deprivation-Experiences of family members during COVID-19 patients' critical illness: A qualitative study.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Addressing clinician moral distress: Implications from a mixed methods evaluation during Covid-19.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Health care workers faced new challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic when physical contact with relatives more or less disappeared. Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe the experiences of critical care nurses (CCNs) working in intensive care units (ICUs) under the visiting restrictions imposed as a result of COVID-19. Method: This study followed a qualitative design. The purposive sample included CCNs with at least 1 year of experience working in an ICU with a visiting policy affected by the pandemic. Data collection was carried out via semi-structured interviews and analyzed through a qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach. Results: The study results are presented in three categories with 10 subcategories. CCNs value the presence of patients' relatives at the bedside and described many challenges when relatives could not be present with the patient during the pandemic. Conclusion: Close relatives are able to share essential information about the patients and provide much-needed emotional support to them, the relatives' role is of central importance and CCNs value their presence in ICUs more than any positive consequences of them not being there.
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