How do Canadian nurses understand their work experience during the COVID-19 pandemic?
department or school: Education, Faculty of
department or school: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Yan, Brian
issued: 2024-04-29T17:21:19Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: 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.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/88072
note: HOW DO CANADIAN NURSES UNDERSTAND THEIR WORK EXPERIENCE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC? by BRIAN JASON IAN YAN B.A., Simon Fraser University, 2019 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Counselling Psychology) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2024 © Brian Jason Ian Yan, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: HOW DO CANADIAN NURSES UNDERSTAND THEIR WORK EXPERIENCE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC? submitted by Brian Yan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In Counselling Psychology Examining Committee: Dr. Marla Buchanan, Professor, Counselling Psychology, UBC Supervisor Dr. Bill Borgen, Professor, Counselling Psychology, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Marvin Westwood, Professor Emeritus, Counselling Psychology, UBC Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract 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 …
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442012
language: eng
degree discipline: Counselling Psychology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Buchanan, Marla
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88072