Nurses’ lived experiences of caring for patients with COVID-19: a phenomenological study

Heydarikhayat, Nastaran; Ghanbarzehi, Nezar; Shahkaramzehi, Zarkhatoon; Sabagh, Kimya; Rohani, Camelia

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“…Nurses felt a conflict between their professional duties as a nurse and their self-protection and the protection of their families from the disease. 20 In a qualitative study, Liu et al also expressed the view of nurses as a sense of full responsibility for patient recovery and as a duty; the health team strives to provide the best care for patients and return them to daily activities of life. 10 Kim’s study also showed that nurses who participated in the care of patients with MERS, had a stronger sense of responsibility and professional ethics and mainly did not raise physical and psychological injuries.…”

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Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of Patient Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

Khademi

Imani

2022

J Caring Sci

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is now a major public health crisis in the world. Nurses as key members of professional are exposed the most challenges caused by COVID19. Knowledgeable nurses’ experiences can provide appropriate solutions to increase the quality of care and improve the health of the society. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of nurses’ caring for patients with COVID-19. Methods: 12 nurses participated in this phenomenological study. We performed purposeful sampling and in-depth face-to-face and semi-structured individual interviews for collecting data. Qualitative data, was analyzed by the 6-step Van Manen hermeneutic phenomenology. Results: After data analysis, the mean (SD) age of study participants was 32.25 (5.62) years and their mean work experience was 9.75 (5.39) years. From the analysis of data obtained from interviews with nurses working in COVID-19 wards, 1050 primary codes, 17 subthemes and 5 themes were extracted. Main themes include: sincere service, patient oppression, emotional instability, suspension and relaxation. Conclusion: Analysis of data in this study suggested that the nurses who care patients in COVID-19 pandemic, faced many professional and psychological challenges. Healthcare managers should plan for psychological support services for the nurses.

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Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of Patient Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

Khademi

Imani

2022

J Caring Sci

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“…The specialist consolidated the comprehensive depiction down to a short, broader explanation that caught those viewpoints considered to be crucial for the construction of the peculiarity. The scientist returned the central design articulation to all members to find out if it captured their encounters (Heydarikhayat et al 2022 ). Three themes and five sub-themes emerged from the data.…”

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Emotional abuse among married women at Vhembe district: Experiences and consequences

Mulaudzi

Nkhwashu²,

Shilubane

2022

Health SA Gesondheid

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Background: Emotional abuse is seen as an issue to be kept secret and not reported, because there is no evidence of abuse until stress, sickness and death occur.Aim: The study aimed at exploring the experiences and consequences of emotional abuse among married women in a selected village in the Vhembe district in Limpopo province.Setting: Vhembe district in Limpopo province.Methods: This qualitative study adopted a descriptive phenomenological design. Participants were selected using purposive sampling, with the support of the local healthcare professional to select participants with lived experiences around emotional abuse. In-depth one-on-one unstructured interviews were conducted. Only ten married women were interviewed because of data saturation. Colaizzi’s method was used to analyse the data.Results: The results revealed three themes – the participants’ experiences of emotional abuse, the impacts of emotional abuse on the victim and reasons for remaining in an abusive marriage – and eight sub-themes. Married women also stated several reasons for remaining in abusive marriages such as poverty and love for the spouse.Conclusion: The study showed a lack of understanding and consequences of emotional abuse among married women in a village in Limpopo province. The cultural institutions that support lobola disempower women, reinforce violence and allow husbands to have power over their wives. The participants thought men had every right to do whatever they liked with them because they paid their bridal price (lobola). Hence, it is essential to increase the understanding of emotional abuse among women by educating them on various platforms regarding their rights.Contribution: This study contributes to understanding the lived experiences of emotional abuse and its consequences on married women.

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Ethical issues experienced by nurses during COVID-19 pandemic: Systematic review

Oh,

Gastmans

2023

Nurs Ethics

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Background Frontline nurses who care for patients with COVID-19 work in stressful environments, and many inevitably struggle with unanticipated ethical issues. Little is known about the unique, ethically sensitive issues that nurses faced when caring for patients with COVID-19. Aim To better understand how frontline nurses who care for patients with COVID-19 experience ethical issues towards others and themselves. Methods Systematic review of qualitative evidence carried out according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses on ethical literature (PRISMA-Ethics). The electronic databases PubMed, Embase, Cinahl, Web of Science, Philosopher's Index, and Scopus were queried to identify candidate articles. Articles appearing from March 1, 2020 to December 31, 2022 were considered if they met the following inclusion criteria: (1) Published qualitative and mixed method studies and (2) ethical issues experienced by nurses caring for patients with COVID-19. We appraised the quality of included studies, and data analysis was guided by QUAGOL principles. Findings Twenty-six studies meeting our inclusion criteria for how nurses experience ethical issues were characterised by two key themes: (1) the moral character of nurses as a willingness to respond to the vulnerability of human beings and (2) ethical issues nurses acted as barriers sometimes, impeding them from responding to requests of vulnerable human beings for dignified care. Conclusion Our review provides a deeper understanding of nurses’ experiences of ethically sensitive issues, while also highlighting the critical need for adjustments to be made at organisational and societal levels. Ethical issues that emerged in situations where organisational and situational constraints impeded nurses' ethical responses to patients’ appeals suggests that early practical support should be made available to resolve ethical issues recognised by nurses. Such support contributes to protecting and promoting not only the dignity of patients with COVID-19 but also of fellow humans in need during crisis.

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Nurses’ lived experiences of caring for patients with COVID-19: a phenomenological study

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of Patient Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of Patient Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

Emotional abuse among married women at Vhembe district: Experiences and consequences

Ethical issues experienced by nurses during COVID-19 pandemic: Systematic review

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