Fight or flight-intensive care nurses' decisions to resign following the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological hermeneutical study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many intensive care unit (ICU) nurses who were crucial to the frontline response during the COVID-19 pandemic left their employment during or after the pandemic. Studies exploring the experiences of these nurses are lacking. The aim of this study was to explore ICU nurses' course towards making the decision to resign from work in the ICU following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method

Advertisements on social media and a snowball sampling-inspired method were used to recruit 11 nurses from hospitals around Sweden who worked in an ICU during the pandemic and who then left employment. The participants were interviewed individually via telephone, online or in-person. An interview guide with a few open-ended questions was used to capture the nurses' narratives. The data were

SUBMITTER: Slettmyr A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11963475 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature