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Yan, Brian

University of British Columbia

With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global event resulted in a shutdown occurring on a scale never seen before. Across the world, healthcare systems were pushed past maximum operating capacities and began to buckle, leaving frontline healthcare workers to bear the brunt of its severity. There is a scarcity of Canadian empirical knowledge regarding how nurses experienced working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study utilized in-depth narrative interviews with four nursing practitioners who had worked in hospitals during the pandemic, providing care to COVID-19 positive patients. Thematic content analysis was conducted on participant interviews to examine their stories of how they navigated their work and the challenges they faced. Five key themes emerged from the analysis the participant’s narrative interviews: Concerns about Personal Safety, Struggles with Workload, Administrative Presence, Perceptions of Nursing Culture, and Personal Mental Health. These themes are presented and discussed in terms of their implications for future practice, research and policy.

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2024-04-29

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88072

Counselling Psychology

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/