Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight?
Aim: To assess the performance of frontline nurses, who believed they were living out their calling, during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: Although as a profession nursing generally requires high levels of performance, the disruption arising from an infectious disease...
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| author | Zhou, Yan Asante, Eric Adom Zhuang, Yiyu Wang, Jie Zhu, Yue Shen, Lihua |
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| description | Aim: To assess the performance of frontline nurses, who believed they were living out their calling, during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Background: Although as a profession nursing generally requires high levels of performance, the disruption arising from an infectious disease outbreak increases the work stress and decreases the performance of frontline nurses. How this situation can be improved has yet to be thoroughly examined.
Method: We used a snowball sampling technique to recruit 339 nurses who were originally from outside of Hubei but volunteered to join medical teams going to Hubei to tackle COVID-19.
Results: Drawing on the theory of work as a calling, we found that living a calling had a positive effect on frontline nurses’ performance through the clinical and relational care they provided. Perceived supervisor support strengthened these mediated relationships.
Conclusion: Our findings indicate that despite the constraints associated with pandemics, frontline nurses who are living a calling are able to provide better clinical and relational care to infected patients, which in turn improves their performance.
Implications for Nursing Management: The findings of this study suggest that hospitals can introduce career education interventions to enhance nurses’ ability to discern and live out their calling to improve their performance. |
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| spelling | nottingham-640782020-12-21T05:52:54Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64078/ Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? Zhou, Yan Asante, Eric Adom Zhuang, Yiyu Wang, Jie Zhu, Yue Shen, Lihua Aim: To assess the performance of frontline nurses, who believed they were living out their calling, during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: Although as a profession nursing generally requires high levels of performance, the disruption arising from an infectious disease outbreak increases the work stress and decreases the performance of frontline nurses. How this situation can be improved has yet to be thoroughly examined. Method: We used a snowball sampling technique to recruit 339 nurses who were originally from outside of Hubei but volunteered to join medical teams going to Hubei to tackle COVID-19. Results: Drawing on the theory of work as a calling, we found that living a calling had a positive effect on frontline nurses’ performance through the clinical and relational care they provided. Perceived supervisor support strengthened these mediated relationships. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that despite the constraints associated with pandemics, frontline nurses who are living a calling are able to provide better clinical and relational care to infected patients, which in turn improves their performance. Implications for Nursing Management: The findings of this study suggest that hospitals can introduce career education interventions to enhance nurses’ ability to discern and live out their calling to improve their performance. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2020-10-15 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64078/1/Surviving%20an%20infectious%20disease%20outbreak%20How%20does%20nurse%20calling%20influence%20performance%20during%20the%20COVID-19%20fight.pdf Zhou, Yan, Asante, Eric Adom, Zhuang, Yiyu, Wang, Jie, Zhu, Yue and Shen, Lihua (2020) Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? Journal of Nursing Management . ISSN 0966-0429 living a calling; COVID-19; perceived supervisor support; nursing performance; caring http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13181 doi:10.1111/jonm.13181 doi:10.1111/jonm.13181 |
| spellingShingle | living a calling; COVID-19; perceived supervisor support; nursing performance; caring Zhou, Yan Asante, Eric Adom Zhuang, Yiyu Wang, Jie Zhu, Yue Shen, Lihua Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? |
| title | Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? |
| title_full | Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? |
| title_fullStr | Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? |
| title_short | Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID‐19 fight? |
| title_sort | surviving an infectious disease outbreak: how does nurse calling influence performance during the covid‐19 fight? |
| topic | living a calling; COVID-19; perceived supervisor support; nursing performance; caring |
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