Compassionate care during the COVID-19 pandemic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F65269705%3A_____%2F24%3A00079756" target="_blank" >RIV/65269705:_____/24:00079756 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14110/24:00136187
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12912-024-01827-x?utm_source=getftr&utm_medium=getftr&utm_campaign=getftr_pilot" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12912-024-01827-x?utm_source=getftr&utm_medium=getftr&utm_campaign=getftr_pilot</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-01827-x" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12912-024-01827-x</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Compassionate care during the COVID-19 pandemic
Original language description
BackgroundThere was a substantial documented call for healthcare professionals to provide compassionate care during the COVID-19 pandemic and significant criticism voiced when it was lacking. This study aimed to explore perspectives on compassionate care among healthcare professionals providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on healthcare professionals who participated in a wide range of COVID-19 measures, including testing, quarantine, diagnosis, and care provision (patients with COVID-19 or patients with other illnesses and comorbid with COVID-19).MethodsA qualitative design with an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach was used. Twenty frontline healthcare professionals (15 nurses and five physicians) who had worked in COVID-19 facilities in China were interviewed individually.ResultsParticipants stated that a commitment to 'offering oneself' and 'balancing the advantages/disadvantages' in providing care during the pandemic were key to alleviate population-level suffering. On a personal level, they described a desire for obtaining 'mutual support' and improving 'professional competencies' to safeguard their physical and mental well-being. Two professional competencies were notable: coping with grief and implementing infection control across the organization. Additionally, they emphasized the importance of receiving support from the health care organization, the public, and leaders in creating an 'environment conducive to fostering compassionate care.'ConclusionHealthcare professionals recognized the centrality of compassionate care during the pandemic which entailed a commitment to offering themselves, the balancing of advantages and disadvantages in order to find the best solution, as well as the need to safeguard themselves using professional competencies. Such findings can enrich the contemporary understanding of compassion, including when it is lacking. Support from the healthcare organization, the public, and leadership were crucial in fostering compassionate care in healthcare professionals during the pandemic and in moving the field forward in the future.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30307 - Nursing
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
BMC Nursing
ISSN
1472-6955
e-ISSN
1472-6955
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
173
UT code for WoS article
001185202500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85187875789