Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35350
Appears in Collections:Faculty of Social Sciences Journal Articles
Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: From Preventing physical infection to managing affective contagion: An initial study of daily nursing practices in the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan
Author(s): Wen, Man
Zhang, Shaoying
McGhee, Derek
Contact Email: derek.mcghee@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Affective contagion
COVID-19
China
General and specific nursing
Issue Date: Jul-2023
Date Deposited: 2-Sep-2023
Citation: Wen M, Zhang S & McGhee D (2023) From Preventing physical infection to managing affective contagion: An initial study of daily nursing practices in the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. <i>Social Science and Medicine</i>, 329, Art. No.: 116033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116033
Abstract: This paper examines the daily practices of caring for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, in early 2020 and the challenges that nurses faced. The paper shows that the affective contagion, especially among patients, introduced unexpected challenges for nurses in caring for COVID-19-infected patients. Nurses had to contend with the challenges of treating both physical and psychological problems in patients simultaneously. As a result, it was necessary for nurses to adapt to the different rhythm of COVID-19 wards to address these challenges and do so through taking on a range of general and specific nursing tasks and playing a diverse range of roles on the wards, from garbage collector to “psychological counselor.” Thus, the paper brings attention to the experiences and demands of providing nursing care in an emergency pandemic context, in particular the necessity of responding to both the physical and the psychological needs of patients. These insights could better prepare health services in China and elsewhere in the world for responding effectively to potential future pandemics.
DOI Link: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116033
Rights: This item has been embargoed for a period. During the embargo please use the Request a Copy feature at the foot of the Repository record to request a copy directly from the author. You can only request a copy if you wish to use this work for your own research or private study. Accepted refereed manuscript of: Wen M, Zhang S & McGhee D (2023) From Preventing physical infection to managing affective contagion: An initial study of daily nursing practices in the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. Social Science and Medicine, 329, Art. No.: 116033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116033 © 2023, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Licence URL(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
Track changed Version Operationalization of Nurses(Edited).pdfFulltext - Accepted Version274.58 kBAdobe PDFView/Open



This item is protected by original copyright



A file in this item is licensed under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons

Items in the Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

The metadata of the records in the Repository are available under the CC0 public domain dedication: No Rights Reserved https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

If you believe that any material held in STORRE infringes copyright, please contact library@stir.ac.uk providing details and we will remove the Work from public display in STORRE and investigate your claim.