Implementing mixed nursing care teams in intensive care units during COVID-19: A rapid qualitative descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The goal of this study was to gain insight into the views and experiences of an intensive care team working in a new nursing-care delivery model during the COVID-19 waves. A new model of care was implemented to augment nursing capacity and provide sufficient intensive care beds.

Design

A qualitative monocentric study using rapid qualitative descriptive methods was reported in line with the COREQ checklist.

Methods

Nurse, ward manager and physician participants were purposively recruited between January and March 2021 in a tertiary university-affiliated hospital in the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium. Semistructured interviews were conducted and analysed using thematic analysis methods.

Results

The participants were seventeen expert nurses, twelve supporti

SUBMITTER: Geltmeyer K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9349646 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature