Selena MacDonald’s research while affiliated with Dalhousie University and other places

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The burden of grief: A scoping review of nurses’ and physicians’ experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Literature Review

January 2024

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Selena MacDonald

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Jackie Phinney

Coping with loss is an unfortunate reality faced by healthcare professionals, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this challenge for those who worked on the frontlines. Our scoping review aimed to comprehensively map the existing literature pertaining to the experiences of grief among nurses and physicians in the context of the pandemic. Six bibliographic databases were searched in 2022, and a targeted search of gray literature and citation chasing was also performed. After screening a total of 2920 records, we included 173 evidence sources in this review. Data was both analyzed descriptively (e.g., frequency counts and percentages) and using a qualitative content analysis approach. Our findings illuminate the myriad losses experienced by nurses and physicians throughout the pandemic. While the literature portrays the coping mechanisms healthcare professionals have developed personally, there is a pronounced need for increased institutional support to alleviate the burdens they carry.

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... However, ours is the first to comprehensively examine professional grief across all healthcare professions and specialties, incorporating quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method designs. While Yazdan et al 17 reviewed 29 articles on hospital-based interventions to address physician and nurse grief, highlighting the limited and heterogenous nature of existing studies, and Burm et al 18 reviewed 173 studies on physician and nurses' experiences during the COVID-19, emphasizing the need for institutional support, these reviews were profession-or context-specific. Other reviews have also been limited in scope: Tamworth et al 19 examined grief among mental health practitioners, Findlay and Robertson 20 focused on home care workers, and Weiss et al 21 explored disenfranchised grief (a type of grief that is not openly acknowledged, mourned, or supported by others 22 ) within a nursing paradigm, while Fernández-Basanta et al 23 conducted a meta-synthesis on midwives' and nurses' grief related to pregnancy loss. ...

Reference:

Hidden in Plain Sight: A Scoping Review of Professional Grief in Healthcare and Charting a Path for Change
The burden of grief: A scoping review of nurses’ and physicians’ experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Citing Article
  • January 2024