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The impact of COVID-19 on nurses (ICON) survey : nurses' accounts of what would have helped to improve their working lives
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Ball, Jane, Anstee, Sydney, Couper, Keith, Maben, Jill, Blake, Holly, Anderson, Janet E., Kelly, Daniel, Harriss, Ruth and Conolly, Anna (2023) The impact of COVID-19 on nurses (ICON) survey : nurses' accounts of what would have helped to improve their working lives. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 79 (1). pp. 343-357. doi:10.1111/jan.15442 ISSN 0309-2402.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jan.15442
Abstract
Aims
To use nurses' descriptions of what would have improved their working lives during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
Design
Analysis of free-text responses from a cross-sectional survey of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce.
Methods
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.
Results
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.
Conclusions
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.
Impact
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.
Patient or Public Contribution
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RT Nursing | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nursing -- Great Britain, Nurse practitioners -- Great Britain, Midwives -- Great Britain, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Influence | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Advanced Nursing | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0309-2402 | ||||||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 79 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 15 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 343-357 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/jan.15442 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 October 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 October 2022 | ||||||||
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