Analysis of the Management Strategies in Caring for Patients with COVID-19: Chinese Nurses' Experience

In order to improve the quality of nursing care and patient outcomes during the future pandemics, understanding the details of strategies used for the management of patients with COVID-19 and its outcomes are crucial. The present study was conducted to reveal the management strategies that Chinese nurses utilized for COVID-19 patients.

Graneheim and Lundman's approach of conventional content analysis was used in this study and participants included nine nurses caring the patients with COVID-19 along with supervisors or matrons. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews and were analyzed via MAXQDA 10.

Six main categories emerged in this study including "overcoming challenges of COVID-19 pandemic", "continuous online training of nurses", "psychological support", " cooperative behavior of the public and government based on the previous pandemic experience", "protecting medical staff from infection" and "application of smartphone technology".

The optimal management of emerging diseases depends on the cooperation of the people, the efforts of the healthcare team, and the measures of the managers. Hospital managers could create equipped units to be designated for probable health care emergencies, preparing educated team for quick training of staff, streamlining the expansion of standard work, and providing the necessary infrastructure for possible future pandemics.