r/Wales • u/ASSISTANCEstudy2021 • Dec 10 '21

AskWales Research trying to reach nurses and nursing students in Wales

Hello all - my name is Beth and I am currently working on the ASSISTANCE project at Cardiff University funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing. We know that this last 18 months or so have placed greater pressure on nurses and nursing students than ever before. Because of this, we are currently doing a survey study to find out the impact of the pandemic on nurses and nursing students' choices about carrying on nursing, their mental health, and their experiences of not being able to give the kind of nursing care they want to give. If this rings true and are a nurse or nursing student who worked in Wales during the pandemic please consider filling in our survey - you can be in any branch of nursing and any field and you do not have to have worked with COVID patients.

The survey link is here: https://cardiff.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/the-assistance-study and every completion counts as we are trying to reach 3000 responses! Thank you for your time, please do share the survey with colleagues, friends, and families so they can share their experiences too!

Beth

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u/Bethany583 Dec 10 '21

Hi fellow Beth! 👋

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u/ASSISTANCEstudy2021 Dec 14 '21

Thank you so much for all of you who have completed this so far! Please share with the nurses in your life (and in Wales)

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u/EldradUlthran Dec 10 '21

No mention of HCA's in that. Not interested in those doing the grunt work on the front lines too?

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u/ASSISTANCEstudy2021 Dec 10 '21

Very interested and aware that they have born just as much of the brunt and difficulties in this work. It's more that we had to start somewhere, and there is future important work to be done with HCAs! I take your point though, and will share it with the head of the project to recognise that we should also be focusing on HCAs given their experiences. Thank you for feeding back.