Halberg Nina, Jensen Pia Søe, Larsen Trine Schifter
The Research Unit of Orthopaedic Nursing, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
Clinical Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
J Adv Nurs. 2021 May;77(5):2429-2436. doi: 10.1111/jan.14811. Epub 2021 Feb 22.
To explore how the media and socially established hero narrative, affected the nursing staff who worked in the frontline during the first round of the COVID19-pandemic.
During the COVID19-pandemic, both media, politicians and the public have supported and cheered on the frontline healthcare workers around the world. We have found the hero narrative to be potentially problematic for both nurses and other healthcare workers. This paper presents an analysis and discussion of the consequences of being proclaimed a hero.
Hospital ethnography including fieldwork and focus groups.
Empirical data was collected in a newly opened COVID19-ward in a university hospital in the urban site of Copenhagen, Denmark. Fieldwork was performed from April until the ward closed in the end of May 2020. Succeeding focus group interviews with nursing staff who worked in the COVID19-ward were conducted in June 2020. The data were abductively analysed.
The nursing staff rejected the hero narrative in ways that show how the hero narrative leads to predefined characteristics, ideas of being invincible and self-sacrificing, knowingly and willingly working in risk, transcending duties and imbodying a boundless identity. Being proclaimed as a hero inhibits important discussions of rights and boundaries.
The hero narrative strips the responsibility of the politicians and imposes it onto the hospitals and the individual heroic health care worker.
It is our agenda to show how the hero narrative detaches the connection between the politicians, society and healthcare system despite being a political apparatus. When reassessing contingency plans, it is important to incorporate the experiences from the health care workers and include their rights and boundaries. Finally, we urge the media to cover a long-lasting pandemic without having the hero narrative as the reigning filter.
探讨媒体和社会既定的英雄叙事如何影响在新冠疫情第一轮期间奋战在一线的护理人员。
在新冠疫情期间，媒体、政界人士和公众都对全球一线医护人员表示了支持与喝彩。我们发现英雄叙事对护士及其他医护人员可能存在问题。本文对被奉为英雄的后果进行了分析与讨论。
医院人种志研究，包括实地考察和焦点小组。
在丹麦哥本哈根市区一家大学医院新开设的新冠病房收集实证数据。实地考察从2020年4月开始，直至该病房于5月底关闭。2020年6月对曾在新冠病房工作的护理人员进行了后续焦点小组访谈。对数据进行溯因分析。
护理人员以多种方式拒绝英雄叙事，这些方式表明英雄叙事如何导致预设的特质、无敌和自我牺牲的观念，明知且甘愿在风险中工作、超越职责以及体现无限的身份。被奉为英雄阻碍了关于权利和界限的重要讨论。
英雄叙事将政治家的责任剥离，并将其强加于医院和个体的英雄医护人员身上。
我们的议程是表明英雄叙事如何切断政治家、社会与医疗系统之间的联系，尽管它是一种政治手段。在重新评估应急计划时，纳入医护人员的经验并考虑他们的权利和界限非常重要。最后，我们敦促媒体在报道长期疫情时，不要以英雄叙事作为主导滤镜。
