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Ethical challenges causing moral distress: nursing home staff's experiences of working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Author(s): Ariander, Annaclara; Olaison, Anna; Andersson, Christer; Sjödahl, Rune; Nilsson, Lena; Kastbom, Lisa
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Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care; Jun2024, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p266-275, 10p- Subject Terms:
WORK; NURSING home employees; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; QUALITATIVE research; WORK environment; CONTENT analysis; QUESTIONNAIRES; INTERVIEWING; JUDGMENT sampling; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ETHICS; THEMATIC analysis; ATTITUDES of medical personnel; COMPARATIVE studies; COVID-19 pandemic; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; EXPERIENTIAL learning - Source:
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- Abstract: To investigate the experiences of healthcare staff in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual interviews. Latent qualitative content analysis. Ten nursing homes in Sweden. Physicians, nurses and nurse assistants working in Swedish nursing homes. Participants' experiences of working in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four manifest categories were found, namely: Balancing restrictions and allocation of scarce resources with care needs; Prioritizing and acting against moral values in advance care planning; Distrust in cooperation and Leadership and staff turnover – a factor for moral distress. The latent theme Experiences of handling ethical challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic gave a deeper meaning to the categories. During the pandemic, nursing home staff encountered ethical challenges that caused moral distress. Moral distress stemmed from not being given adequate conditions to perform their work properly, and thus not being able to give the residents adequate care. Another aspect of moral distress originated from feeling forced to act against their moral values when a course of action was considered to cause discomfort or harm to a resident. Alerting employers and policymakers to the harm and inequality experienced by staff and the difficulty in delivering appropriate care is essential. Making proposals for improvements and developing guidelines together with staff to recognize their role and to develop better guidance for good care is vital in order to support and sustain the nursing home workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected both patients and staff in nursing homes, in Sweden and worldwide. Our study highlights that during the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home staff encountered several ethical challenges which caused moral distress. Moral distress stemmed from not being given adequate conditions to perform their work, thus not giving the residents appropriate care. Moral distress could also originate from nursing home staff's feeling of being forced to act against their moral values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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