Modulating Elements of Nurse Resilience in Population Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ester Sierra-García, Eva María Sosa-Palanca, Carlos Saus-Ortega, Antonio Ruiz-Hontangas, Raúl Juárez-Vela and Vicente Gea-Caballero
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Ester Sierra-García: Nursing School La Fe, Adscript Center of Universidad de Valencia, 46026 Valencia, Spain
Eva María Sosa-Palanca: Nursing School La Fe, Adscript Center of Universidad de Valencia, 46026 Valencia, Spain
Carlos Saus-Ortega: Nursing School La Fe, Adscript Center of Universidad de Valencia, 46026 Valencia, Spain
Antonio Ruiz-Hontangas: Faculty of Health Science, European University Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Raúl Juárez-Vela: Department of Nursing, University of La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Vicente Gea-Caballero: Faculty of Health Science, International University of Valencia, 46002 Valencia, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: COVID-19 has significantly affected the work environment of nurses. In the face of the challenges posed by stressors in clinical practice, some nurses adapt and prove to be resilient. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nature of care itself and the new ways of working are potentially very stressful. We aim to analyze the resilience of care nurses to the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a systematic review of nurse caregiver resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Our search was conducted in the WOS, Medline/PubMed, Cochrane, BVS/LILACS, and Cuiden databases. The inclusion criteria were: studies published in Spanish or English; carried out from March 2020 to May 2021 on nurses caring for patients with COVID-19; and investigating the factors influencing the psychological impact, resilience, strategies to develop it, and interventions to promote it during this pandemic and others, such as SARS, MERS, or ebola. The quality of the studies and the risk of bias were evaluated following ICROMS, STROBE and AMSTAR-2 criteria. Twenty-two studies were selected. Most of the studies highlighted the presence of stressors in nurses, emphasizing those of the environment, which converged in dysfunctional responses that hurt their resilience. The most persuasive factors were social and organizational support. Coping strategies developed by nurses and especially interventions by organizations were detected as instruments to foster resilience, but have not been well researched. Resilience has a key moderating role in mitigating the psychological impact of nurses in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: nurse; COVID-19; resilience; coping; stress; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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