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'They all stay with me'—An interpretive phenomenological analysis on nurses' experiences resuscitating children in community hospital emergency departments.
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Mar2023, Vol. 32, p701-714, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Aim: To understand the lived experiences of nurses resuscitating children in community hospital emergency departments. Background: Emergency department nurses exposed to paediatric resuscitations are at a high risk of developing post‐traumatic stress. This may be especially true in community hospital emergency departments, where nurses have less exposure to, knowledge about, and resources for managing these events. Interventions to proactively prevent nurse trauma in these contexts remain largely uninvestigated. To inform such interventions, a detailed understanding of the largely unknown lived experiences of these nurses is necessary. Design and methods: In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with four registered nurses that had experienced at least one paediatric resuscitation while working in a community hospital emergency department in Ontario, Canada. Data were analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis. Reporting follows the COREQ checklist. Results: Analysis revealed three superordinate themes (i.e. 'Conceptualising Paediatric Resuscitations', 'Seeing What I See', and 'Making Sense of What I Saw') and nine corresponding subthemes. Conclusion: This study provides insight into the infrequent, but profound experiences of nurses resuscitating children in community hospital emergency departments. Nurses, who conceptualise these events as unnatural, emotional, and chaotic, are comforted by those who understand their experiences and are distressed by those who cannot see what they see. To reconcile what they have seen, nurses may reflect and ruminate on the event, ultimately restructuring their experiences of themselves, others, and the world to make room for a new reality where the safety of childhood is not certain. Relevance to clinical practice: Our findings contribute to pragmatic recommendations for interventions to proactively prevent nurse distress in these contexts, including psychoeducation, psychological support and in‐situ simulation activities. Nursing leaders should consider staff that have resuscitated children as valuable sources for information on how to improve practice settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HOSPITALS
HOSPITAL emergency services
SOCIAL support
RESEARCH methodology
INTERVIEWING
PSYCHOEDUCATION
THEORY of knowledge
POST-traumatic stress disorder
EXPERIENCE
PHENOMENOLOGY
COMPARATIVE studies
QUALITATIVE research
CRITICAL care nurses
HOSPITAL nursing staff
RESEARCH funding
SOUND recordings
PEDIATRIC nurses
RESUSCITATION
THEMATIC analysis
JUDGMENT sampling
EMOTIONS
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09621067
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161726499
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16273