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. 2022 Apr:69:103179.
doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2021.103179. Epub 2021 Nov 17.

Critical care nurses' experiences of working during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic - Applying the Person-centred Practice Framework

Maria Andersson  1 , Anna Nordin  2 , Åsa Engström  3
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Critical care nurses' experiences of working during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic - Applying the Person-centred Practice Framework

Maria Andersson et al. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2022 Apr.

Abstract

Aim: The aim of the study was to deductively study person-centred care, based on critical care nurses' experiences during the first phase of the CoViD-19 pandemic.

Design: The study used a qualitative design.

Method: Data collection was conducted as individual interviews and was analysed with qualitative content analysis with a deductive approach.

Participants: Six critical care nurses working in a special CoViD-19 intensive care unit during the first phase of the pandemic participated.

Findings: The findings are presented within the four domains of person-centred practice: the prerequisites, the care environment, person-centred processes and person-centred outcomes. While the ambition and knowledge about how to work in accordance with person-centred practice were high, there were several obstacles to perform it.

Conclusion: We need to prepare ahead of time so that nurses have optimal organisational prerequisites to be able to work in accordance with person-centred practice, also during pandemics and other crisis, which means to be able to give nursing care in accordance with the ill person's needs and resources.

Keywords: COVID-19; Critical Care Nurse; Deductive; Person-Centred Care; Qualitative.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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