ICU Nurse Resilience and Infection Control Practices, March-June 2025

Eva Cappelli's qualitative study, published on figshare in April 2026, explores how resilience among intensive care nurses is activated during the management of patients with multidrug-resistant organisms. Data were collected between March and June 2025 in two Intensive Care Units through non-participant observations and twenty-one semi-structured interviews with nurses, a head nurse, nurse assistants, and anaesthesiologists. The analysis identified three interrelated themes encompassing eleven categories related to individual and team-based resilience, adaptive strategies, and interactions with organisational support.

Use Cases

• Analyze themes of professional resilience and burnout based on the identified categories from qualitative interviews.
• Study the relationship between organisational support and adherence to infection prevention protocols based on the described dynamic interactions.
• Model factors contributing to emotional fatigue in critical care settings based on the described 'critical zone' of resilience.
• Investigate team-based adaptive strategies in time-critical clinical situations based on the described themes.

Strengths

• Includes data from 21 semi-structured interviews with multiple healthcare roles.
• Data collection covered a defined period from March to June 2025.
• Analysis produced three themes and eleven categories, providing a structured qualitative framework.
• Dataset is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited quantitative or raw observational data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical analysis.

Provenance

Source

Eva Cappelli via figshare.

Collection Method

Non-participant observations and semi-structured interviews, analysed with inductive content analysis.

Time Range

March to June 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 17:37:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Two Intensive Care Units; specific location unknown.