Nurs Res. 2022;71(2):104-110. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000571.
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected healthcare institutions, introducing new challenges for nurse leaders and their colleagues. However, little is known about how the pandemic has specifically affected the lives of these leaders and what methods and strategies they are using to overcome pandemic-related challenges.
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the 2019 pandemic on emerging healthcare leaders and highlight methods and strategies they used to overcome pandemic-related challenges.
The participants in this study represent a diverse group of interprofessional healthcare faculty enrolled in a transformational leadership course (Paths to Leadership) when the pandemic first appeared. Three months into the pandemic, the leadership cohort was invited to participate in this qualitative study, exploring four questions: Q1: How have you transformed your working styles in response to the pandemic? Q2: How have you adjusted your personal life in response to the pandemic? Q3: How have you used leadership skills learned from Paths to Leadership during the pandemic? Q4: What lessons have you learned from the pandemic? Participant narratives were analyzed by a team of nurse researchers using conventional qualitative content analysis.
Themes for Q1 (working styles) included shifted from face-to-face to telework, faced novel disease and decisions, worked more from home, and challenged to maintain contact with professional peers and team. Themes for Q2 (personal life) included accommodate adults working and children learning from home, looked for and found the positive, and continue to struggle. Themes for Q3 (leadership skills) included reflective practice, listening, holding, and reframing. Finally, themes for Q4 (pandemic lessons) included leadership, human connection, be prepared, taking care of ourselves, and connecting with nature.
The 2019 pandemic brought hardships and opportunities to faculty members enrolled in an interprofessional transformational leadership course. In conjunction with this course, the pandemic provided a unique opportunity for participants to apply newly acquired relationship building, positive organizational psychology, and reframing skills during a time of crisis. Nursing leaders, whose educational offerings may be immediately "put to the test," may find our lessons learned helpful as they develop strategies to cope with unanticipated future challenges.
COVID-19 大流行对医疗机构产生了重大影响，给护士领导者及其同事带来了新的挑战。然而，对于大流行如何特别影响这些领导者的生活，以及他们正在使用哪些方法和策略来克服与大流行相关的挑战，人们知之甚少。
本研究旨在探讨 2019 年大流行对新兴医疗保健领导者的影响，并强调他们用于克服与大流行相关挑战的方法和策略。
本研究的参与者代表了一组多元化的跨专业医疗保健教师，他们在大流行初现时参加了一门转型领导力课程（Path to Leadership）。在大流行三个月后，领导力队列受邀参加这项定性研究，探讨了四个问题：Q1：您如何针对大流行改变工作方式？Q2：您如何针对大流行调整个人生活？Q3：您在大流行期间如何运用从 Path to Leadership 中学到的领导技能？Q4：您从大流行中吸取了哪些经验教训？由一组护士研究人员使用常规定性内容分析对参与者的叙述进行分析。
针对 Q1（工作方式）的主题包括从面对面转为远程工作，面对新疾病和决策，更多地在家工作，以及努力保持与专业同行和团队的联系。针对 Q2（个人生活）的主题包括适应成人在家工作和儿童在家学习，寻找并发现积极面，以及继续努力。针对 Q3（领导技能）的主题包括反思实践、倾听、支持和重新定义。最后，针对 Q4（大流行经验）的主题包括领导力、人际联系、做好准备、照顾自己和与自然联系。
2019 年大流行给参加跨专业转型领导力课程的教师带来了困难和机遇。结合这门课程，大流行为参与者提供了一个独特的机会，让他们在危机期间应用新获得的关系建立、积极的组织心理学和重新定义技能。护理领导者，其教育课程可能会立即“受到考验”，他们可能会发现我们的经验教训对他们制定策略以应对未来意外挑战有所帮助。
