The impact of COVID-19 on nurses (ICON) survey: Nurses' accounts of what would have helped to improve their working lives.
COVID-19
content analysis
midwives
morale
nurses
nursing
personal protective equipment
survey
wellbeing
work-lives
Journal
Journal of advanced nursing
ISSN: 1365-2648
Titre abrégé: J Adv Nurs
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7609811
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2023
Jan 2023
Historique:
revised:
19
08
2022
received:
29
06
2022
accepted:
31
08
2022
pubmed:
1
10
2022
medline:
17
12
2022
entrez:
30
9
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To use nurses' descriptions of what would have improved their working lives during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Analysis of free-text responses from a cross-sectional survey of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce. Between 2 and 14 April 2020, 3299 nurses and midwives completed an online survey, as part of the 'Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses' (ICON) study. 2205 (67%) gave answers to a question asking for the top three things that the government or their employer could do to improve their working lives. Each participants' response was coded using thematic and content analysis. Multiple response analysis quantified the frequency of different issues and themes and examined variation by employer. Most (77%) were employed by the National Health Service (77%) and worked at staff or senior staff nurse levels (55%). 5938 codable responses were generated. Personal protective equipment/staff safety (60.0%), support to workforce (28.6%) and better communication (21.9%) were the most cited themes. Within 'personal protective equipment', responses focussed most on available supply. Only 2.8% stated that nothing further could be done. Patterns were similar in both NHS and non-NHS settings. The analysis provided valuable insight into key changes required to improve the work lives of nurses during a pandemic. Urgent improvements in provision and quality of personal protective equipment were needed for the safety of both workforce and patients. Failure to meet nurses needs to be safe at work appears to have damaged morale in this vital workforce. We identified key strategies that, if implemented by the Government and employers, could have improved the working lives of the nursing and midwifery workforce during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and could prevent the pandemic from having a longer-term negative impact on the retention of this vital workforce. No Patient or Public Contribution, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, urgency of the work and the target population being health and social care staff.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36177495
doi: 10.1111/jan.15442
pmc: PMC9538551
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
343-357Subventions
Organisme : Burdett Trust for Nursing
Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Advanced Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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