Pandemic Lessons for Future Nursing Shortage: A Prospective Cohort Study of Nurses’ Work Engagement before and during 16 Months of COVID-19

Table 1

Norm scores for the UWES-9 [12].

	Vigour	Dedication	Absorption	Total score
Very low	≤2.00	≤1.33	≤1.17	≤1.77
Low	2.01–3.25	1.34–2.90	1.18–2.33	1.78–2.88
Average	3.26–4.80	2.91–4.70	2.34–4.20	2.89–4.66
High	4.81–5.65	4.71–5.69	4.21–5.33	4.67–5.50
Very high	≥5.66	≥5.70	≥5.34	≥5.51