Vicarious trauma in nursing professionals: A concept analysis.

Published in: Nursing forum (2022)

More empiric rigor is needed to adequately operationalize VT. Given the traumatic nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, immediate policy and education attention should be directed towards understanding the relationship between nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic and the prevalence of VT.

Keyphrases

healthcare
mental health
spinal cord injury
quality improvement
public health
risk factors
working memory
urinary tract infection
trauma patients