The impact of COVID-19 from the perspectives of Dutch district nurses: a mixed-methods study

JD Veldhuizen, S Zwakhalen, BM Buurman… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Little is known about how COVID-19 affects older patients living at home or how it affects
district nursing teams providing care to these patients. This study aims to (1) explore, from …

Working as a nurse in community health services during Covid-19: a qualitative study

EB Moi, AV Skisland, B Johannessen, K Haraldstad… - BMC nursing, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background During the Covid-19 pandemic, new roles, increased workload, lack of
staffing and infection control equipment, unclear infection control guidelines and conflicting …

Facing the unknown COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study with nurses and nursing assistants in three European countries

N Podgorica, C Zenzmaier, C Rungg, B Bertini… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now a worldwide public health
emergency. As essential and central parts of the COVID-19 patient care team, nurses and …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and working conditions of nurses and its implications for policies: A cross-sectional study in Slovakia

S Putekova, J Martinkova, A Urickova, L Kober… - BMC nursing, 2023 - Springer
Background Increased workload and of the health workforce (HW) strained the capacity to
maintain essential health services (EHS) during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Factors protecting Swiss nurses' health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study

J Jubin, P Delmas, I Gilles, A Oulevey Bachmann… - BMC nursing, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe in early 2020 and impacted nurses
over a prolonged period, notably causing heavy work overloads. Exposure to sources of …

Nursing care during COVID-19 at non-COVID-19 hospital units: A qualitative study

L Jørgensen, B Pedersen, B Lerbæk… - Nordic Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The maintenance of physical distance, the absence of relatives and the relocation of
registered nurses to COVID-19 units presumably affects nursing care at non-COVID-19 …

From chaos to a new normal—the COVID-19 pandemic as experienced by municipal health and social care providers in Sweden: A qualitative study

M Tarvis, K Ziegert, E Forsberg… - Nordic journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread around the world, Swedish municipalities
were unprepared. Different guidelines on how to act in relation to the disease varied and …

Early Nurse Management Experiences from Finnish COVID-19 Hubs: An In-Action Review

MS Nevala, S Vuorela - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Primary healthcare (PHC) clinics are the point of access for many COVID-19 patients;
however, the focus of crisis response work has been in securing hospital capacities. The …

Stressors, self-reported overall health, potential protective factors and the workplace well-being of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland: a …

CO Bucher, P Delmas, AO Bachmann, I Gilles - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was making a huge impact on Europe's healthcare
systems in the spring of 2020, and most predictive models concurred that pandemic waves …

Psychosocial burden and associated factors among nurses in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from a retrospective survey in Germany

C Hering, A Gangnus, A Budnick, R Kohl… - BMC nursing, 2022 - Springer
Background Care homes were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although high levels of
psychosocial burden (ie, anxiety, depression and stress) during the pandemic have been …