As health systems rapidly respond to COVID-19, it is unclear how these changes influence the experiences and well-being of female healthcare providers (FHCPs), including the potential for FHCPs to develop compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. We conducted qualitative interviews (n = 15) with FHCPs at three locations (Washington, California, and New York). Interviews explored FHCP's perspectives on how care delivery changed, processes of information delivery and decision-making, gender inclusion, and approaches to managing stress and well-being. An inductive coding process was used to generate themes. FHCPs described significant changes to the way they delivered care, and their work environments, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Five themes emerged that characterized the experiences of FHCPs during COVID-19, including conflicting feelings while providing care, managing information and decisions, balancing roles, coping and well-being, and considerations for moving forward. FHCPs experienced many impacts to their professional and personal lives during COVID-19 that further complicated their ability to manage stress and well-being. The themes identified through this work offer important lessons about how to support the well-being of FHCPs and signify the widespread potential for compassion fatigue among FHCPs as a result of COVID-19.

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“看着海啸来袭”：女性医疗保健提供者在 COVID-19 大流行期间的案例研究

随着卫生系统对 COVID-19 的快速反应，尚不清楚这些变化如何影响女性医疗保健提供者 (FHCP) 的体验和福祉，包括 FHCP 发展同情疲劳和继发性创伤压力的可能性。我们进行了定性访谈（n = 15) 在三个地点（华盛顿、加利福尼亚和纽约）设有 FHCP。访谈探讨了 FHCP 对护理服务如何变化、信息传递和决策过程、性别包容以及压力和幸福管理方法的看法。使用归纳编码过程来生成主题。FHCP 描述了在 COVID-19 大流行期间他们提供护理的方式和工作环境发生了重大变化。在 COVID-19 期间，FHCP 的经历出现了五个主题，包括提供护理时的冲突感受、管理信息和决策、平衡角色、应对和福祉，以及前进的考虑因素。. 在 COVID-19 期间，FHCP 对其职业和个人生活产生了许多影响，这进一步复杂了他们管理压力和幸福感的能力。通过这项工作确定的主题为如何支持 FHCP 的福祉提供了重要的经验教训，并表明 COVID-19 导致 FHCP 普遍存在同情疲劳的可能性。