Hosseini Meimanat, Ghasemi Saeed, Hejazi Sima
Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Nursing, Bojnurd Faculty of Nursing, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2023 Apr 14;28(2):160-166. doi: 10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_49_22. eCollection 2023 Mar-Apr.
The impacts of caring for hospitalized COVID-19 patients on nurses are wide and varied and have not been comprehensively explained in the existing literature. The aim of this study was to explore the nurses' perception of the impacts of caring for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
In this qualitative descriptive study, data were collected via semi-structured interviews with 20 nurses and head nurses of emergency/internal wards and Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of 2 hospitals in Tehran, Iran. The purposive sampling method was used, and data analysis was performed using a conventional content analysis approach.
After data analysis, 12 subcategories, 3 main categories, and 1 theme (professional resilience) were extracted. The three main categories included "complex care," "professional development," and "caring self-efficacy." Caring for hospitalized COVID-19 patients was complex for nurses; however, the care provided to these patients could also lead to the nurses' professional development and caring self-efficacy.
Health organizations and nursing managers can better manage the COVID-19 pandemic and other similar future crises through strategies such as providing nurses with adequate and diverse resources and facilities, encouraging and supporting nurses in various dimensions, providing positive media advertisements for the nursing profession and nurses, and providing nurses with necessary and applicable knowledge and skills.
护理住院的新冠肺炎患者对护士的影响广泛且多样，现有文献尚未对此进行全面阐释。本研究旨在探究护士对护理住院新冠肺炎患者所产生影响的认知。
在这项定性描述性研究中，通过对伊朗德黑兰两家医院急诊科/内科病房及重症监护病房（ICU）的20名护士和护士长进行半结构式访谈来收集数据。采用目的抽样法，并运用常规内容分析法进行数据分析。
数据分析后，提取出12个子类别、3个主要类别和1个主题（职业复原力）。三个主要类别包括“复杂护理”“专业发展”和“护理自我效能感”。对护士而言，护理住院的新冠肺炎患者很复杂；然而，为这些患者提供护理也可促使护士实现专业发展并提升护理自我效能感。
卫生组织和护理管理者可以通过以下策略更好地应对新冠肺炎疫情及未来其他类似危机，如为护士提供充足且多样的资源和设施、在各个方面鼓励和支持护士、为护理专业和护士进行正面的媒体宣传，以及为护士提供必要且适用的知识和技能。
