Nursing care during COVID-19 at non-COVID-19 hospital units: A qualitative study

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

Nursing care during COVID-19 at non-COVID-19 hospital units: A qualitative study

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

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Nordic Journal of Nursing Research
Volume	42
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	101-108
Number of pages	8
ISSN	2057-1585
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/20571585211047429
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

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COVID-19
content analysis
non-pandemic units
nursing
qualitative
registered nurses

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Jørgensen, L., Pedersen, B., Lerbæk, B., Haslund-Thomsen, H., Thorup, C. B., Albrechtsen, M. T., Jacobsen, S., Nielsen, M. G., Kusk, K. H., Laugesen, B., Voldbjerg, S. L., Grønkjær, M., & Bundgaard, K. (2022). Nursing care during COVID-19 at non-COVID-19 hospital units: A qualitative study. Nordic Journal of Nursing Research, 42(2), 101-108. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/20571585211047429

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