Moral Distress Among Operating Room Personnel During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the reallocation of healthcare resources, and a minimization of elective activities. Healthcare personnel involved in COVID-19 care have been negatively affected by the associated excess stress. The existing COVID-19 research has focused on the experiences among healthcare personnel in general, and not particularly on the operating room team members, who have often been relocated to overburdened workplaces. Therefore, we aimed to explore the experiences in this particular group.

Methods

This study has a qualitative inductive design based on interviews with a strategic sample of 12 operating room team members: surgeons, anesthesiologist, specialist nurses, and nurse assistants. The interviews were analyzed using cont

SUBMITTER: Fagerdahl AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8692083 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature