Mental distress and influencing factors in nurses caring for patients with COVID-19.

Min LengLili WeiXiaohui ShiGuorong CaoYuling WeiHong XuXiaoying ZhangWenwen ZhangShuyun XingHolly Wei

Published in: Nursing in critical care (2020)

Recommendations for practice include providing adequate training and orientation before assigning nurses to ICU to help, offering disaster-emergency-preparedness training to keep nurses prepared, providing caring and authentic nursing leadership, offering ongoing psychological support to frontline nurses.

Keyphrases

mental health
healthcare
public health
emergency department
intensive care unit
quality improvement
virtual reality
mechanical ventilation
clinical practice