Fight or flight—intensive care nurses’ decisions to resign following the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological hermeneutical study

The ICU nurses' decision to resign was influenced by a tangle of challenging paradoxes that entailed ambivalence. The course to the decision to resign was marked by hesitancy. While it is important to understand and support nurses' willingness to care for patients during a crisis and to acknowledge their suffering as it relates to their professional efforts, it is also essential to address their individual struggles and needs.