RESPONDER: A qualitative study of ethical issues faced by critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify and understand ethical challenges arising during COVID-19 in intensive care and nurses' perceptions of how they made "good" decisions and provided "good" care when faced with ethical challenges and use of moral resilience.

Background

Little is known about the ethical challenges that nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and ways they responded.

Design

Qualitative, descriptive free-text surveys and semi-structured interviews, underpinned by appreciative inquiry.

Methods

Nurses working in intensive care in one academic quaternary care centre and three community hospitals in Midwest United States were invited to participate. In total, 49 participants completed free-text surveys, and seven participants completed interviews. Data were analysed u

SUBMITTER: Morley G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9537935 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature