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The Lived Experience of Nursing Officers Responding to COVID-19 at a Military Hospital Dedicated to Infectious Disease in Korea

  • 군진간호연구
  • Abbr : Korean Journal of Military Nursing Research
  • 2022, 40(1), pp.43~57
  • DOI : 10.31148/kjmnr.2022.40.1.43
  • Publisher : Military Health Policy Research Center
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Nursing Science > General Nursing > Nursing Education
  • Received : February 21, 2022
  • Accepted : March 27, 2022
  • Published : March 30, 2022

Joe Seunyoung 1 Kwon, Eunji 1 Song, Miae 2 Lee, Saerom 3 Seoyoung Baek 1

1국군간호사관학교
2국군양주병원
3용산구보건소

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ABSTRACT

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe ROK nursing officers’ experience of responding to COVID-19 at a military hospital dedicated to infectious disease. Methods: The data were obtained through focus group interviews with 32 nursing officers caring for patients with COVID-19 at a military hospitals and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: 49 themes and 13 theme clusters were extracted, and four categories were identified: ‘Negative psychological experience in response to COVID-19’, ‘Expanded task responding to emerging infectious disease’, ‘Recognition of the need to improve the emerging infectious disease response system’, and ‘Experience for personal growth through responding to COVID-19’. Conclusion: The results of this study help understanding of nursing officer’s experience of caring patients with COVID-19. It is needed to support nursing officers to work in safe environment and grow through nursing experience of patients with COVID-19.

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