The lived experiences of frontline nurses during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic in Qatar: A qualitative study | Zendy

Villar Ralph C. | Zendy; Nashwan Abdulqadir J. | Zendy; Mathew Rejo G. | Zendy; Mohamed Ahmed S. | Zendy; Munirathinam Sathish | Zendy; Abujaber Ahmad A. | Zendy; AlJabry Mahmood M. | Zendy; Shraim Mujahed | Zendy

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The lived experiences of frontline nurses during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic in Qatar: A qualitative study

Author(s) -

Villar Ralph C.,

Nashwan Abdulqadir J.,

Mathew Rejo G.,

Mohamed Ahmed S.,

Munirathinam Sathish,

Abujaber Ahmad A.,

AlJabry Mahmood M.,

Shraim Mujahed

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

nursing open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55

H-Index - 12

ISSN - 2054-1058

DOI - 10.1002/nop2.901

Subject(s) - snowball sampling , covid-19 , qualitative research , interpretative phenomenological analysis , pandemic , context (archaeology) , nursing , teamwork , psychology , nonprobability sampling , workload , psychological resilience , lived experience , medicine , disease , social psychology , sociology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , environmental health , virology , psychotherapist , social science , population , law , pathology , computer science , biology , operating system , paleontology , political science

Aim This study aims to explore the lived experiences of frontline nurses providing nursing care for COVID‐19 patients in Qatar. Design Qualitative, Phenomenological. Methods Nurses were recruited from a designated COVID‐19 facility using purposive and snowball sampling. The participants were interviewed face‐to‐face using semi‐structured interview questions from 6 September–10 October 2020. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. Result A total of 30 nurses were interviewed; (76.7%) were deployed for >6 months. Three major themes were drawn from the analysis: (a) Challenges of working in a COVID‐19 facility (subthemes: working in a new context and new working environment, worn out by the workload, the struggle of wearing protective gear, fear of COVID‐19, witnessing suffering); (b) Surviving COVID‐19 (subthemes: keeping it safe with extra measures, change in eating habits, teamwork and camaraderie, social support); and (c) Resilience of Nurses (subthemes: a true calling, a sense of purpose).

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