Swedish emergency nurses' experiences of the preconditions for the safe collection of blood culture in the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor: Lundgren G; Emergency Department, Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden., Bengtsson M; Department of Care Sciences, Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden., Liebenhagen A; Department of Care Sciences, Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nursing open [Nurs Open] 2023 Mar; Vol. 10 (3), pp. 1619-1628. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 27.
DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1416
Abstrakt: Aim: To describe how Swedish emergency nurses experience the preconditions of providing safe care during the COVID-19 pandemic when collecting blood culture in the emergency department.
Design: A qualitative exploratory design using content analysis with a manifest approach.
Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 emergency nurses working in the emergency department.
Results: The analysis resulted in one main category: unprecedented preconditions create extraordinary stress and jeopardize safe care when collecting blood culture. This main category includes four additional categories: organizational changes, challenges in the isolation room, heavy workload creates great stress, and continuous learning.
Conclusion: The COVID-19 outbreak has made the emergency department a workplace where constant changes of routines combined with new information and reorganization risk jeopardize safe care during blood culture sampling. Accordingly, high workload and stress have been identified as a reason for emergency nurses not following guidelines. It is therefore necessary to optimize the preconditions during blood culture sampling and identify situations where there are shortcomings.
(© 2022 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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