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Abstract
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic posed major challenges to the health care system, particularly to nursing. Intensive care was often the focus of attention. However, home care nursing was also confronted with drastic changes, while it is largely unknown how the work situation changed for employees as a result of the pandemic – also depending on the sponsorship of home care nursing services.
Methods
A nationwide online survey of home-care nurses was conducted in May and June 2022. The Intensification of Job Demands Scale (IDS) and an open question regarding changes in the work situation due to the pandemic were used among other instruments.
Results
More than two-thirds of the 976 home-care nurses surveyed agreed with the respective statements regarding work intensification (e. g., taking fewer breaks, doing work activities at the same time, not having enough time). Additional factors for psychological workload during the pandemic primarily fell within the scope of work organization (e. g., staff absences due to illness and quarantine, vaccination related leaves and terminations, additional workload due to handling protective clothing). Employees of privately run care services experienced fewer COVID-19-related changes than home care nurses employed by non-profit providers.
Conclusion
In future crisis situations, good information management (e. g., uniform, consistent and comprehensible guidelines and recommendations for action) and ways to compensate for staff shortages should be created.
期刊介绍:
Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.