Factors contributing to nurses’ resilience in caring for COVID-19 patients: an integrative review
Article Category: Review
Published Online: Sep 21, 2023
Page range: 289 - 299
Received: Jul 14, 2022
Accepted: Dec 15, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2023-0032
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Objective
To summarize factors contributing to the resilience of nurses in caring for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.
Methods
An integrative review was conducted according to the recommendations proposed by Whittemore and Knafl. Articles were searched through 8 electronic databases: PubMed, Scopus, Clinical Key for Nursing, ProQuest, Medline and Wiley Online Library, CINAHL, and Garuda, which are databases recommended by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology in Indonesia. Relevant articles published in English and Indonesia between 2019 and 2022, being quantitative or qualitative theoretical-methodological studies that analyzed or proposed factors to nurses’ resilience in caring for COVID-19 patients, were included, whereas primary studies that used review as a methodology to review an object of research were excluded.
Results
From the 17 articles that were included in this study, 3 factors were found that contributed to the resilience of nurses in caring for COVID-19 patients, namely personal factors, workplace/organizational factors, and social factors.
Conclusions
Understanding factors related to nurses’ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic can contribute to meet nurses’ resilience both physically and psychologically. Good resilience of nurses during a pandemic is useful for improving nursing care services and patient safety, as well as for being able to avoid turnover intentions among nurses in pandemic time.