Table 2.

Challenges of nursing care for patients with COVID-19 from nurses' perspectives

Subcategory	Category
Lack of nurses with adequate clinical qualification	Work overload in disaster
Restrictions on the compliance of the infection control protocols
Personal and family tensions	Immersion in an ocean of psychological and social tensions
Work environment tensions
Perception of organizational injustice
Social stigma
Self-preservation rather than patient care	Quality of care in fragile condition
Contradictory patient care standards
Passive resource management	Disaster preparedness, response, and management
Information system challenges
Lack of guideline-supported protocols