• AACN Adv Crit Care · Mar 2021

    Experiences of Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study.

    • Jenna A LoGiudice and Susan Bartos.
    • Jenna A. LoGiudice is Associate Professor and Director of the Midwifery Program, Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824 (jlogiudice@fairfield.edu); and per diem Certified Nurse Midwife, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
    • AACN Adv Crit Care. 2021 Mar 15; 32 (1): 14-26.

    BackgroundThe first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 was a global event for which nurses had limited time to prepare before receiving an influx of high-acuity patients and navigating new plans of care.ObjectivesTo understand nurses' lived experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak and to examine their resiliency.MethodsA convergent mixed methods design was applied in this study. For the quantitative portion, resiliency was measured by using the Brief Resilience Coping Scale. Colaizzi's phenomenological method was used for qualitative analysis.ResultsA total of 43 nurses participated in the study. The mean score on the Brief Resilience Coping Scale was 14.4. From 21 robust narratives, Colaizzi's qualitative method yielded 5 themes to describe the experience of being a nurse during the pandemic.ConclusionsUnderstanding the lived experience provides a unique lens through which to view nursing during a global pandemic, and it serves as a starting point to ensure future safeguards are in place to protect nurses' well-being.©2021 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

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