Nursing CaRE Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Delivery of business as usual in unusual ways: compassion and resilience in the face of adversity
IRAS ID
320888
Contact name
Faith Gibson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 1 months, 22 days
Research summary
This study will investigate how services at one specialist children's hospital were redesigned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collecting interview and documentary data from senior nurses responsible for a range of services and patient groups will enable us to describe what happened along a specific timeline (March 2020 to May 2022) and the experiences of nurse leaders in managing this change. Across this hospital, we will examine multiple contexts of care, to provide insights into what it was like to be delivering nursing care during the pandemic. We will look specifically at the impact COVID-19 had/is having on the care of children and young people requiring: intensive care, mental health services, cancer care, general paediatric care together with children with learning disabilities, those requiring long term ventilation and children requiring palliative care.
In the second part of the study, we will set up a series of arts-based workshops where we will ask a wide range of nurses who delivered direct nursing care, to tell us how they provided safe and compassionate care to meet the needs of children, young people and their families during these extraordinary times. Learning from all this information will be combined and guidance produced on the potential of children's nursing services to respond to and manage change in a health crisis. We will invite leaders of children’s hospital care across the United Kingdom to review the guidance for its broader application for future episodes of profound change.
This study is required because although fewer children than adults became seriously ill with COVID-19, the impact on their health and well-being was and continues to be significant. Understandably most studies of hospital services have focused on adult care, we need to urgently capture the knowledge base related to nursing children during COVID-19.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - South Yorkshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/YH/0074
Date of REC Opinion
14 Apr 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion