Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of new nurses who took care of COVID-19 patients. For this study, study subjects were conducted with a total of nine new nurses, and data were collected through individual in-depth interviews from September to November 2020. The data were analyzed using the phenomenological analysis method suggested by Colaizzi. New nurses’ experience of caring for COVID-19 patients consisted of three categories. The three categories are “The fear as a new nurse about infectious diseases that they have not experienced”, “Physical and psychological burden in an isolated environment”’, and “Building professional values”. Findings from this study presented vivid experiences of new nurses who took care of COVID-19 patients. This study is meaningful in that it grasped the physical and psychological difficulties of nurses nursing COVID-19 patients, especially the difficulties as a new nurse, and the implications for developing and growing within them. It is expected that it will serve as basic data for the establishment of strategies for infectious education programs for new nurses.
Highlights
IntroductionIt became an unprecedented disease in the 21st century and as of 2021, there have been over 100 million confirmed cases and 2.35 million deaths worldwide, including
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, China in late2019
The study results of the experience of caring for COVID-19 patients by new nurses were summarized by fourteen themes, six theme clusters, and three categories (Table 1)
Summary
It became an unprecedented disease in the 21st century and as of 2021, there have been over 100 million confirmed cases and 2.35 million deaths worldwide, including. 81,000 confirmed cases and 1,400 deaths in South Korea alone [1]. As of 2021, it is still difficult to predict when the pandemic will end. Even if this viral infection ends, there is a high likelihood of a new respiratory infection emerging at any time. Twenty thousand new nurses graduate each year from nursing colleges in South Korea in accordance with government guidelines [5], but the number of active nurses per 1000 population is 3.8, which falls short of the Organization for Economic
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