The seminar of the Research Group "Doctor-nurse-patient relationship: between professional authority and the powers of consumers of medical services" was held at the ILSIR
On June 20, 2024 a seminar was held on the topic "Emotional labour of nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic: the results of a qualitative study", organized within the framework of the Research Group "Doctor-nurse-patient relationship: between professional authority and the powers of consumers of medical services".
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At the seminar, Natalia Baisha, a member of the Research Group "Doctor-nurse-patient relationship: between professional authority and the powers of consumers of medical services", an research assistant at the ILSIR and PhD student, presented the first analysis of the results of a qualitative study conducted among nurses in Volgograd. Attention was focused on what emotions the nurses experienced and how they coped with them while working in covid and non-covid hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conditional division of nurses into those who worked in the covid and non-covid zones is due to unequal opportunities to receive additional material and symbolic rewards for nursing work organized in conditions of increased workload, lack of staff and places for patients, in conditions of unequal opportunities to receive feedback from the management staff at the request of nurses. Interim conclusions were formulated based on the results of the initial stage of thematic coding of 15 interviews with nurses from covid and non-covid zones employed in public health institutions in Volgograd.
Anastasiia Novkunskaya, PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the European University in St. Petersburg, Associate Professor on Qualitative Health Research, Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Research acted as a debater. Anastasia drew the speaker's attention to the need to specify the time limits of nursing work in the studied areas, the specifications of departments and the profile direction of hospitals where informants work. The heterogeneity of the announced waves of COVID-19 infections could affect the nursing emotional experience, which is especially important to take into account when further working with quality data.
Not only representatives of the academic sphere joined the discussion. Valuable comments and suggestions were made by our partners, employees of the Association of Nurses of Russia", Director of Professional Development Yulia Agapova, as well as Chairman of the Volgograd Department of the Association of Nurses of Russia Natalia Kuvakina, who noted the importance of studying emotional labor and working conditions of nurses.
We sincerely thank Anastasiia Novkunskaya, dear colleagues from the Association of Nurses of Russia and the Volgograd Department of the Association of Nurses of Russia, as well as all participants in the discussion for their attention to the issues raised during the seminar, for clarifying questions and valuable comments. And we would like to express our gratitude to all the nurses of Volgograd who took part in the interview.
The recording of the seminar is available at the link.