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Aim: The aim of this work is to synthesize and interpret qualitative research examining the experiences of nurses providing care for patients with COVID‐19 in acute care settings in the early stages of the pandemic in different countries. Background: The prevalence of disasters, including the pandemic, is increasing globally. It is important to understand nurses' experiences in depth to effectively manage extraordinary events that may occur in the future. Design: This is a thematic meta‐synthesis study. Methods: Electronic databases, including CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed, Web of Science, OVID, and Scopus, were searched for publications from December 2019 to October 2020. The search was updated for publications to 30 May 2022. The thematic synthesis method was used to analyse and interpret the data. Findings The experiences of the nurses giving care to patients with COVID‐19 were grouped under four themes: (1) Difficulties encountered in the care of patients with COVID‐19; (2) mixed emotions experienced in the care of patients with COVID‐19; (3) coping strategies that nurses used in the management of the pandemic; (4) the benefits of the COVID‐19 to nurses. Conclusion: Nurses faced many difficulties and experienced mixed emotions while providing care for patients with coronavirus disease. Perceived social support was seen as the most important strategy for coping with these difficult situations. It is important to be aware of the difficulties and emotions experienced by nurses and support them during the COVID‐19 pandemic for the management of future pandemics. Summary statement: What is already known about this topic? During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the health sector was affected most.Nurses were on the front lines and faced many challenges. What this paper adds? Nurses perceived the COVID‐19 pandemic as a unique experience for their professional identity and personal development despite the difficulties they faced.They saw social support, which would make them feel valuable, as the most important coping strategy. The implications of this paper Lessons learned from nurse experiences in the early stages of the pandemic should be taken into account when planning for a pandemic or other disaster situations.Politicians, health‐care organizations, and nurse managers should increase social support to ensure the well‐being of nurses in busy work environments such as pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spasticity is one of the main symptoms that is most common in patients with Multiple Sclerosis and causes increased disability. The aim of this study is to understand the experiences of patients with Multiple Sclerosis about their spasticity from their perspective. This study was conducted as a qualitative study with a Hermeneutic phenomenological framework. The data were evaluated by using VanManen's thematic analysis method. As a result of the data analysis, four main themes were elicited, namely, "the meaning of spasticity for the patient," "the difficulties of living with spasticity," 'coping with spasticity," and "the new me created by spasticity." It was understood that spasticity is a symptom that brings about difficulties in psychological, social, and working life as well as physical difficulties. Nurses should be aware of the psychological symptoms as well as the physical symptoms that patients experience due to spasticity and should create a patient-specific management program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study was conducted to explore the effect of inadequately conducted compulsory distance education on the professional identity (PI) development process from nursing students' perspective. Design and Methods: The study used a qualitative design based on Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenological approach. The data were analyzed by using Van Manen's thematic analysis. Results: The themes of the study were: (1) an inadequate, compulsory, uncertain, and difficult experience, (2) negative impact on PI development. Practice Implications: It is important for educators to realize that the PI development of nursing students is affected during the distance education process. In this context, students can be included in clinical practice in small groups before graduation in addition to online learning in terms of PI development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working in agriculture may cause serious health problems due to heavy working conditions and chemical exposure. This Husserlian phenomenological qualitative study was conducted with 22 women working in greenhouse agriculture to investigate the health and social problem(s). In the evaluation of the data, Colaizzi's seven‐step content analysis method and thematic analysis were used. The Kappa analysis was performed with two independent experts to measure the reliability of comparative fit, and the value obtained in the analysis was 1.00 (perfect fit). Based on the content analysis, six themes were defined. All participants indicated that they had different reproductive health‐related problems. Some participants stated that their children had respiratory system‐related problems and that they were subjected to physical, verbal/emotional and sexual violence by their husbands. It is important to provide health education, counselling services and screening programmes for women who work in greenhouse agriculture and thus are in the at‐risk group for poor health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this meta-synthesis study, 47 qualitative studies that were conducted with a total of 2234 female participants aged between 18 and 75 years in 22 different countries were analyzed. The women were found to not participate breast cancer screening behaviors due to personal, social, and system barriers. Women's personal barriers were determined as fear, embarrassment, breast cancer perceptions and beliefs, lack of motivation, lack of knowledge, socioeconomic status, and negative experiences. Culture and stigma were identified as social barriers. Health insurance coverage, accessibility of health care services, and the attitudes of health care workers were classified as system barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate self‐management by individuals with a serious mental illness and an additional chronic disease. Design and Methods: Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used. The study was carried out with 12 participants with a serious mental illness and an additional chronic disease. Results: The participants had a diagnosis of schizophrenia and diabetes (75%). Based on the data, the difficulties faced by the patients in chronic disease management were determined as three themes: (a) personal‐related difficulties, (b) family and society‐related difficulties, and (c) healthcare system‐related difficulties. Practice Implications: Nurses' interventions to accurately inform other clinicians and leading professional groups in the community will support individuals with serious mental illnesses to improve their self‐management by reducing the burden of stigma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]