Lone Jørgensen, Birgith Pedersen, Birgitte Lerbæk, Helle Haslund-Thomsen, Charlotte Brun Thorup, Maja Thomsen Albrechtsen, Sara Jacobsen, Marie Germund Nielsen, Kathrine Hoffmann Kusk, Britt Laugesen, Siri Lygum Voldbjerg, Mette Grønkjær, Karin Bundgaard
{"title":"Nursing care during COVID-19 at non-COVID-19 hospital units: A qualitative study.","authors":"Lone Jørgensen, Birgith Pedersen, Birgitte Lerbæk, Helle Haslund-Thomsen, Charlotte Brun Thorup, Maja Thomsen Albrechtsen, Sara Jacobsen, Marie Germund Nielsen, Kathrine Hoffmann Kusk, Britt Laugesen, Siri Lygum Voldbjerg, Mette Grønkjær, Karin Bundgaard","doi":"10.1177/20571585211047429","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The maintenance of physical distance, the absence of relatives and the relocation of registered nurses to COVID-19 units presumably affects nursing care at non-COVID-19 units. Using a qualitative design, this study explored registered nurses' experiences of how COVID-19 influenced nursing care in non-COVID-19 units at a Danish university hospital during the first wave of the virus. The study is reported using the COREQ checklist. The analysis offered two findings: (1) the challenge of an increased workload for registered nurses remaining in non-COVID-19 units and (2) the difficulty of navigating the contradictory needs for both closeness to and distance from patients. The study concluded that several factors challenged nursing care in non-COVID-19 units during the COVID-19 pandemic. These may have decreased the amount of contact between patients and registered nurses, which may have contributed to a task-oriented approach to nursing care, leading to missed nursing care.</p>","PeriodicalId":91777,"journal":{"name":"Nordic journal of nursing research","volume":"42 2","pages":"101-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9204132/pdf/10.1177_20571585211047429.pdf","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nordic journal of nursing research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20571585211047429","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 10
Abstract
The maintenance of physical distance, the absence of relatives and the relocation of registered nurses to COVID-19 units presumably affects nursing care at non-COVID-19 units. Using a qualitative design, this study explored registered nurses' experiences of how COVID-19 influenced nursing care in non-COVID-19 units at a Danish university hospital during the first wave of the virus. The study is reported using the COREQ checklist. The analysis offered two findings: (1) the challenge of an increased workload for registered nurses remaining in non-COVID-19 units and (2) the difficulty of navigating the contradictory needs for both closeness to and distance from patients. The study concluded that several factors challenged nursing care in non-COVID-19 units during the COVID-19 pandemic. These may have decreased the amount of contact between patients and registered nurses, which may have contributed to a task-oriented approach to nursing care, leading to missed nursing care.