Nursing and Grief During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Today, coronavirus disease 2019 is a recent phenomenon that becomes increasingly widespread and requires coping. Nurses have been at the forefront of the global fight against this pandemic which still largely remains unknown. Nurses who experience troubles at the workplace and in their private lives due to the pandemic have experienced losses, and they still continue to experience the same. The management of sorrow resulting from losses needs different strategies to cope with the pandemic since the ongoing process of losses and limited coping resources that nurses have highlighted the significance of the management of sorrow. Investigating the feeling of sorrow that nurses may experience and raising awareness toward such critical issues are of utmost importance, especially in these days when nurses experience losses on a daily basis. Therefore, this review aims to explore the feeling of sorrow that nurses experience during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic based on nurses’ own statements.