Unsicherheiten Pflegender während der ersten Covid-19-Infektionswelle und ihre Bewältigungsstrategien – Krankenpflegestudierende dokumentieren mit Tagebucheinträgen ihre Erfahrungen während der ersten Infektionswelle der Covid-19-Pandemie
| Autor: | Wöhlke, Sabine, Ruwe, Gisela |
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| Jazyk: | němčina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| DOI: | 10.25974/enhe2022-5de |
| Popis: | Volume 2022, Issue 4 Background: In March 2020, German hospitals were preparing for the first major wave of Covid-19 infections, implementing crisis management procedures without precedent or prior testing. At this time, we asked stu-dent nurses in their eighth semester of study to complete a nursing diary for a period of four weeks. The aim of this research was to ascertain students’ perceptions of the constantly evolving crisis and retrace their re-flections on the situation on the basis of the knowledge they had at the time. Methods: Eleven students completed a nursing diary, which entailed writing entries on the care they provid-ed on the wards to which they were assigned. They added images such as pictures, screenshots and draw-ings to their diary entries. We analysed the data using ethnographic methods as follows: a) categorisation of the entries in accordance with general thematic similarities; b) comparison of the entries with published nurs-ing literature from this time period, with the aim of identifying possible gaps in the content of our data. Results: The student nurses worked on different wards; some volunteered to staff the newly established Covid-19 wards. Nursing students felt the unfolding crisis to be defined by a sense of uncertainty and poten-tial threat, associated with various fears. The students described their own actions and behaviour in specific situations and outlined observations of others. We categorised our findings in four sub-topics: a) crisis man-agement; b) the invisible crisis; c) a sense of crisis; and d) coping with the crisis. Discussion: In giving insights into the day-to-day work of nurses under extreme conditions, the diaries col-lected and analysed for this study highlight experiences of ambivalence and uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19 infections. Specifically, the students’ reflections on professional responsibility point to this principle’s importance within the system of values espoused by members of the nursing profession. |
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