"Fighting for life and losing": Intensive Care Unit Nursing Staff’s Experience With COVID-19 Patient Deaths During the First Two Waves: A Qualitative Study

Gizell Green; Yulia Gendler; Cochava Sharon

doi:10.1177/00469580221094327

"Fighting for life and losing": Intensive Care Unit Nursing Staff’s Experience With COVID-19 Patient Deaths During the First Two Waves: A Qualitative Study

Gizell Green, Yulia Gendler, Cochava Sharon

Department of Nursing

Ariel University

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The study explored the experiences of intensive care unit nursing staff caring for COVID-19 patients who eventually died during the two first pandemic waves. We used - descriptive-qualitative-phenomenological. The findings included four main themes—the first vs the second COVID-19 waves, fighting for life and being unable to win, a chronicle of pre-determined death, and nurse’s emotional coping with patient death. Based on these findings, we have concluded that in order to enhance nurses’ mental health, policy makers and governments need to create an appropriate support system for them.

Original language	English
Journal	Inquiry (United States)
Volume	59
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221094327 https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221094327
State	Published - 16 May 2022

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COVID-19
emotional coping
intensive care corona unit
nurses
patient death

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Health Policy

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"Fighting for life and losing": Intensive Care Unit Nursing Staff’s Experience With COVID-19 Patient Deaths During the First Two Waves: A Qualitative Study

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