Where Has the Love Gone?

ABSTRACT

[...]dwindling support in some cases transformed into outright hostility as the COVID-19 response became a politically polarizing topic I've had nurses spit at," said Vicki Good, the executive director of nursing at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. According to Laranjeira (2021), several precipitating factors imply that frontline workers, especially nurses, are among the professionals most negatively affected by the pandemic intensive and long work schedules, increased workload, adaptation to new working protocols, risk of infection and transmission to their relatives, disruption of family and personal life, mental stress and trauma, permanent health deterioration, and death (Özkan at et al., 2021). Other inciting reasons for occupational violence that might impact nurses when interacting with the public include health care authorities' refusal "to admit COVID-19 patients due to limited space, the death of relatives in the hospital, and refusal to hand over deceased patient bodies without the results (ProQuest ... denotes text stops here in original.) Rollins, J.A. (2022).