The Study of the Experiences of Nurses Caring for Patients with Coronavirus 2019 in an Intensive Care Unit
Keywords:
experience , critical care nursing, persons with coronavirus 2019Abstract
This qualitative study aimed to explore the lived experiences of nurses caring for patients with coronavirus 2019 in an intensive care unit by conducting in-depth interviews in combination with audio recordings, observation and field notes. Purposive sampling was used to select 15 nurses caring for patients with coronavirus 2019 at an ICU and Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology was applied as the research methodology. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by using Van Manen’s (Van Manen, 1990) method of content analysis.
The findings of this study of the experiences of nurses caring for patients with coronavirus 2019 in an intensive care unit revealed the following 5 major themes 1. Caring for infected patients with overwhelmed feelings because coronavirus 2019 is an emerging disease 2. Caring for physical health by combining previous experiences with new knowledge 3. Caring with humanized care 4. Problems and obstacles to providing care 5. Lessons learned from caring for patients.
These findings provide information for nursing administrators to promote and support various aspects of nursing practice and building self-worth for nurses in caring for patients with coronavirus 2019 in intensive care units. Moreover, the findings can be used in developing guidelines for effectively improving the quality of nursing care in similar situations potentially occurring in the future.
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