Management of the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges, practices, and organizational support

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Abstract

Background

Health organizations currently face tremendous challenges in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. To do this, successful and proven scientific practices and support are needed.

Aim

This study aimed to explore the challenges, practices, and organizational support dealt with by nursing managers in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method

A qualitative content analysis study evaluated 35 nursing managers in five university hospitals through a semi-structured interview. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research were used for this qualitative study.

Results

Three main themes emerged: Challenges include the development of a COVID-19 crisis management plan, a shortage in nursing staff, and psychological problems. Practices include; changes in work schedules for nursing staff, the exchange process, hospital preparation, and training and education. And organizational support includes both support at an organizational level and support at an individual level.

Conclusion

This study revealed that nursing managers are faced with many challenges in the management of COVID-19, requiring good practices and organizational support. This study offers evidence for nursing managers to expect problems that may arise during the pandemic.

Recommendations

The COVID-19 pandemic requires the development of an integrated plan, and this plan must be disseminated to the hospital’s nursing and medical teams to better equip them for the current and future crises.

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Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups.

A Tong, P SAINSBURY, J. Craig (2007)

Qualitative research explores complex phenomena encountered by clinicians, health care providers, policy makers and consumers. Although partial checklists are available, no consolidated reporting framework exists for any type of qualitative design. To develop a checklist for explicit and comprehensive reporting of qualitative studies (in depth interviews and focus groups). We performed a comprehensive search in Cochrane and Campbell Protocols, Medline, CINAHL, systematic reviews of qualitative studies, author or reviewer guidelines of major medical journals and reference lists of relevant publications for existing checklists used to assess qualitative studies. Seventy-six items from 22 checklists were compiled into a comprehensive list. All items were grouped into three domains: (i) research team and reflexivity, (ii) study design and (iii) data analysis and reporting. Duplicate items and those that were ambiguous, too broadly defined and impractical to assess were removed. Items most frequently included in the checklists related to sampling method, setting for data collection, method of data collection, respondent validation of findings, method of recording data, description of the derivation of themes and inclusion of supporting quotations. We grouped all items into three domains: (i) research team and reflexivity, (ii) study design and (iii) data analysis and reporting. The criteria included in COREQ, a 32-item checklist, can help researchers to report important aspects of the research team, study methods, context of the study, findings, analysis and interpretations.

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A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China

Fan Wu, Su Zhao, Bin Yu … (2020)

Emerging infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Zika virus disease, present a major threat to public health 1–3 . Despite intense research efforts, how, when and where new diseases appear are still a source of considerable uncertainty. A severe respiratory disease was recently reported in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As of 25 January 2020, at least 1,975 cases had been reported since the first patient was hospitalized on 12 December 2019. Epidemiological investigations have suggested that the outbreak was associated with a seafood market in Wuhan. Here we study a single patient who was a worker at the market and who was admitted to the Central Hospital of Wuhan on 26 December 2019 while experiencing a severe respiratory syndrome that included fever, dizziness and a cough. Metagenomic RNA sequencing 4 of a sample of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from the patient identified a new RNA virus strain from the family Coronaviridae, which is designated here ‘WH-Human 1’ coronavirus (and has also been referred to as ‘2019-nCoV’). Phylogenetic analysis of the complete viral genome (29,903 nucleotides) revealed that the virus was most closely related (89.1% nucleotide similarity) to a group of SARS-like coronaviruses (genus Betacoronavirus, subgenus Sarbecovirus) that had previously been found in bats in China 5 . This outbreak highlights the ongoing ability of viral spill-over from animals to cause severe disease in humans.

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Naturalistic inquiry

Yvonna Lincoln, Egon Guba, Joseph Pilotta (1985)

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Eman Kamel Hossny:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2656-347X

emankamel500@gmail.com , Kamel@aun.edu.eg

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMC Nurs

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Nurs

Title: BMC Nursing

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 1472-6955

Publication date (Electronic): 22 July 2022

Publication date PMC-release: 22 July 2022

Publication date Collection: 2022

Volume: 21

Electronic Location Identifier: 196

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[1 ]GRID grid.252487.e, ISNI 0000 0000 8632 679X, Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, ; Assiut, Egypt

[2 ]GRID grid.412707.7, ISNI 0000 0004 0621 7833, Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, South Valley University, ; Qena, Egypt

[3 ]GRID grid.31451.32, ISNI 0000 0001 2158 2757, Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, , Zagazig University, ; Sharkia, Egypt

[4 ]GRID grid.449644.f, ISNI 0000 0004 0441 5692, Nursing Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, , Shaqra University, ; Shaqra, Saudi Arabia

[5 ]GRID grid.412258.8, ISNI 0000 0000 9477 7793, Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, ; Tanta, Egypt

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Eman Kamel Hossny http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2656-347X

Manal Saleh Moustafa Saleh http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7567-3515

Atallah Alenezi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6272-5379

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Publisher ID: 972

DOI: 10.1186/s12912-022-00972-5

PMC ID: 9306231

PubMed ID: 34983509

SO-VID: 6110c7ed-822e-4c3a-a2f5-94bbe2f7d6f6

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Date received : 4 January 2022

Date accepted : 6 July 2022

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