Strategies Used for Management of Patients with COVID- ۱۹: A Comparative Study of ‎Iranian and Chinese Nurses’ Experiences

Background:‎ Medical infrastructures, application of control strategies and proper implementation ‎of logistic policies are vital for successful management of an epidemic in a country but all of ‎them are under the influence of the health and management policies of countries. Thus, this study ‎aimed to compare the strategies used by Iranian and Chinese nurses for management of patients ‎with COVID- ۱۹.‎Materials and Methods: This study was conducted based on the conventional content analysis ‎method of Graneheim & Lundman approach. Participants were recruited by purposeful sampling ‎among the nurses working in the COVID-۱۹ wards of Shariati Hospital in Tehran, Iran and ‎Haikou Hospital in Hainan, China. Data were collected by conducting semi-structured interviews from August ۲۰۲۰ to February ۲۰۲۱. Then, the differences in used strategies by the nurses in the ‎two countries were investigated using MAXQDA ۱۰.‎Results: In-depth interviews were carried out with ۹ Chinese and ۱۰ Iranian nurses. “Managers as ‎the key element to overcome the crisis” as the main category, ۶ categories and ۲۲ subcategories ‎were excluded from the Iranian interviews. “Action to control crisis” as the main category, ۸ ‎categories and ۱۹ subcategories were excluded from the Chinese interviews.‎Conclusions: Nursing managers in China focused on the process of training nurses to take care of ‎patients with COVID-۱۹ and reducing the transmission of infection among health care workers. ‎However, nursing managers in Iran focused on compensating the shortage of nurses, shortening ‎the duration of patients’ hospitalization, daily monitoring of nurses' performance and ventilator ‎settings of patients.‎

کلیدواژه ها:

COVID ۱۹ ، disease management ، nursing care ، patient care management‎