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The study aimed to examine implicit principles on negotiating social practice and interaction of ICU HCPs in an exceptional situation, which was characterized by a high level of changes. The data collection followed the principles of theoretical sampling. In this context, a complex field of ambivalence key category emerged between habits and routines of a pre-pandemic normality. Dealing with ambivalence offers the potential for change.
Keywords: qualitative research, frontline workers, COVID, intensive care unit, acute critical care, pandemic experience, ambivalence. The preparedness of healthcare professionals HCPs for challenges like infectious disease outbreaks e. We highlighted a complex field of ambivalence by ICU HCPs between habits and routines of a pre-pandemic normality and pragmatic restructuring concepts at the beginning of the pandemic.
Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease COVID pandemic, health care systems across the world have been facing unprecedented challenges in continuously re-organizing intensive care. In the beginning, strategies for preparing for rapidly changing situations of care were accompanied by substantial uncertainty.
The extent to which healthcare professionals HCPs are prepared or can be prepared for unforeseeable, dynamic changes and their impact on the care situation are decisive in determining whether comprehensive care can be provided for critically ill COVID patients. By increasing abilities to provide intensive care to patients, hospitals established specialized COVID intensive care units ICUs or expanded capacities.
