Kent State University, 126 S. Lincoln Street, Kent, OH 44240, United States of America.
Appl Nurs Res. 2024 Aug;78:151808. doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2024.151808. Epub 2024 May 22.
In the fall of 2021, the Wick Poetry Center, a recognized international leader in creative writing interventions, launched the website Sacred Breath: Voices of Ohio Nurses in Response to COVID-19 (sacredbreathproject.com) with funding from the Ohio Nurses Foundation. The purpose of the website was to offer Ohio nurses an accessible platform to reflect on their personal and professional lived experiences as caregivers during an historic time of pandemic, sacrifice, uncertainty, and scarcity, and to share their voice with others. What resulted was 204 submissions over a three-month period with participant responses touching on widespread sentiments including grief, fatigue, anger, and resilience. It was from the gap in the current literature on pandemic narratives that the researchers of this study began a basic qualitative thematic analysis of the Sacred Breath project website (SBP) responses to gain a better understanding of how nurses, nurse educators, and nursing students made sense of and gave voice to their personal and professional lived experiences during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While stories of nursing during the Covid-19 pandemic have been widely available and disseminated by popular media, academic studies have been slower to utilize qualitative and experimental methods to specifically address pandemic narratives and the resulting discourses by nurses working in and around clinical settings. The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University has spent nearly forty years working in the community to address urgent social needs using expressive writing methods that are often overlooked by traditional social and arts outreach. The Wick Poetry Center engaged local academic networks and community health partners to invite nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators the Sacred Breath Project By evaluating responses to the intervention website, this qualitative study is aimed to fill this gap in the current literature as well as begin to understand how nurses made sense of their work lives during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. What does this paper contribute to the wider global clinical community? What is already known: What this paper adds.
2021 年秋季， Wick 诗歌中心（Wick Poetry Center）——一个在创意写作干预方面被公认为国际领先的机构，在俄亥俄州护士基金会（Ohio Nurses Foundation）的资助下，推出了 Sacred Breath：应对 COVID-19 的俄亥俄州护士之声网站（sacredbreathproject.com）。该网站的目的是为俄亥俄州护士提供一个可访问的平台，让他们在历史上的大流行、牺牲、不确定性和资源匮乏时期，反思自己作为护理人员的个人和职业生活经历，并与他人分享自己的声音。在三个月的时间里，共有 204 名参与者提交了他们的作品，他们的回应涉及到广泛的情绪，包括悲伤、疲劳、愤怒和韧性。正是由于当前关于大流行病叙述的文献中存在空白，该研究的研究人员开始对 Sacred Breath 项目网站（SBP）的回应进行基本的定性主题分析，以更好地了解护士、护理教育者和护理学生如何理解和表达他们在持续的 COVID-19 大流行期间的个人和职业生活经历。虽然有关新冠疫情期间护理工作的故事已经被大众媒体广泛报道和传播，但学术研究利用定性和实验方法来专门解决大流行病叙述和在临床环境内外工作的护士产生的相关话语的速度较慢。肯特州立大学的 Wick 诗歌中心近四十年来一直在社区中使用表达性写作方法来解决紧迫的社会需求，而这些方法常常被传统的社会和艺术推广所忽视。Wick 诗歌中心利用当地的学术网络和社区健康合作伙伴，邀请护士、护理学生和护理教育者参与 Sacred Breath 项目。通过评估对干预网站的回应，这项定性研究旨在填补当前文献中的空白，并开始了解护士如何在持续的新冠疫情期间理解他们的工作生活。这篇论文对更广泛的全球临床社区有何贡献？已经知道的：本文增加的内容。
