J Korean Acad Nurs Adm.  2022 Jun;28(3):307-317. 10.11111/jkana.2022.28.3.307.

An Exploratory Study on Current Nursing Issues in the COVID-19 era through Newspaper Articles: The Application of Text Network Analysis

• Lee YJ

• KMID: 2536041
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.11111/jkana.2022.28.3.307

Abstract

Purpose
This study was explored the current nursing issues in the COVID-19 era by analyzing newspaper articles.
Methods
The search term “nurse” was used to collect newspaper articles from 2020. Pre-processing and semantic network analysis and topic group clustering were conducted using the NetMiner program to analyze the collected articles.
Results
A total of 256 articles were identified, and four topics were extracted. The core keywords were “medical care”, “hospital”, “COVID-19” and “medical workforce”. The extracted topics were “work environment related to response to infectious diseases”, “utilization of nursing resources”, “excessive nursing work”, and “shortage of nursing workforce”.
Conclusion
Our findings provide useful information for understanding social perspectives of critical nursing issues in the COVID-19 era. Most of the extracted topics are the actual problems that nurses have faced for a long time. Now, nurses must proactively address current nursing issues to respond to national disasters and provide quality nursing care.

Keyword

COVID-19; Newspaper article; Nurses; Social network analysis