Background The world faced a great health crisis during the covid‐19 pandemic. Consequently, the healthcare providers struggled and faced tremendous difficulties in treating high‐load critical patients. This was particularly true in low‐ and middle‐income countries where the work and patient loads are always higher and nurses at the forefront must deal with emergencies while being at high risk of exposure. However, little is known about the survival strategies of frontline nurses as dealt with the pandemic. Objectives This study catalogued the coping strategies of frontline nurses to deal with caring for the covid‐19 patients during the pandemic. Methods The Arksey O'Malley framework was followed to conduct a scoping review. A systematic literature search was conducted using three databases: Google Scholar, Scopus, and PubMed and out of the 192 studies, 12 met the inclusion criteria set for this review study. Results A total of 44 strategies were identified that motivated nurses to deal with the covid‐19 situation, and these strategies could be categorized into five main themes: nurses’ self‐strategies, nurses’ strategies at the ethical level, employers’ strategies, nursing leaders’ strategies, and supplementary strategies. Conclusions The findings of this study will provide guidance for healthcare workers, employers, policy makers, regulators and other stakeholders to adopt and promote different strategies in managing difficult emergency situations in future. Implications for nursing management This study emphasizes the importance of learning how to deal with adversity by healthcare workers and organizations in an emergency.

Background: As the incidence of COVID-19 is increasing, the Bangladesh government has announced a countrywide shutdown instead of a lockdown. Consequently, front-line healthcare workers, particularly nurses, are confronting more challenging situations at work. Objective: This study aimed to explore front-line nurses’ experiences caring for patients with COVID-19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Methods: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted among front-line nurses caring for patients with COVID-19. Twenty nurses were purposively chosen from January to March 2021 to participate in semi-structured online interviews. Interviews on audio and video were collected, analyzed, interpreted, transcribed verbatim, and verified by experts. Thematic analysis was used. Results: Nine themes emerged and were grouped into negative and positive experiences. The themes of negative experiences include lack of necessary medical equipment, use of non-standard personal protective equipment, work overload, long working hours, poor working environment, and lack of quality of nursing care. The positive experiences include feeling self in a patient position, nurses’ coping strategy in COVID-19 patient care, and establishing emotional control. Conclusion: The study results encourage national and international health care professionals to cope with adverse working environments. Also, the findings provide nurses with techniques for dealing with any critical situation, controlling patients’ emotions, and how empathy increases self-confidence and patient care. The research should also be used to enhance government policy, nursing council policy, ministry of health policy, and other healthcare agencies.

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Humans are born researchers. As a result, every human desire to arrive at the correct conclusion through investigation. There is no way to obtain absolute truths and solve the real problem without using ethics in research. The most significant and vital content of a study is ethics. Every researcher must maintain ethics from the beginning to the end of a study project. Ethics in research defines guidelines for conducting professional research. It also teaches and regulates researchers to ensure that they follow a strict code of ethics when conducting research. In this chapter, we will demonstrate how ethics is the most important aspect of any research.

This letter aims to respond to Tosepu et al. that workplace violence against nurses increases dramatically in developed and developing countries. This leads to a frustrating and unsustainable work environment. Furthermore, workplace violence has the potential to have long-term physical and psychological implications for all employees and a detrimental effect on the general morale of a healthcare organization. In this letter, we add the evidence of the workplace violence against nurses in Bangladesh, which contributes to increased health job discontent, decreased employee engagement, excessive absenteeism from work, a strong desire to resign, low medical safety ratings, and a high frequency of adverse clinical outcomes. In addition, people who live in hill communities and waterlogged areas do not have access to health care privileges due to workplace violence against nurses. Efforts to combat workplace violence against nurses are therefore very much needed.

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Humans are born researchers. As a result, every human desire to arrive at the correct conclusion through investigation. There is no way to obtain absolute truths and solve the real problem without using ethics in research. The most significant and vital content of a study is ethics. Every researcher must maintain ethics from the beginning to the end of a study project. Ethics in research defines guidelines for conducting professional research. It also teaches and regulates researchers to ensure that they follow a strict code of ethics when conducting research. In this chapter, we will demonstrate how ethics is the most important aspect of any research.

Aim This study aimed to explore the coping strategies adopted by frontline nurses in dealing with COVID‐19 patients during the pandemic in Bangladesh. Design A qualitative descriptive study. Methods Purposive sampling was used to recruit seventeen frontline nurses from three COVID‐19‐specific hospitals in Dhaka City. In‐depth online interviews and semi‐structured questionnaires were used to collect data through the Google Meet platform. Interview sessions audio–video were recorded, interpreted, analysed, verbatim transcribed and quotes of the participants were verified by member checking. Thematic analysis was used in this research. The study's reporting guidelines were based on the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research. Results Seven themes were identified after careful data analysis: (i) A positive attitude in dealing with challenging situation, (ii) Intimate partner's influence, (iii) Self‐emotional regulation, (iv) The tendency to avoid negativity, (v) Motivated by professional obligations, (vi) Religious influence, (vii) Recreational activities. No patient or public contribution This study explored various coping strategies employed by frontline nurses in caring for COVID‐19 patients. No patient or public contribution was investigated.