Stress and coping strategies among nurses during COVID-19.
Simkhada, Mandira (2022)
Simkhada, Mandira
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022051810321
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022051810321
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused major crisis and many deaths around the world. The nurses are more affected with this pandemic because they all worked with infected patients with direct exposure. This caused stress, anxiety, and mental discomfort among them. Pandemic has highlighted the occupational stress that nurses confront in caring for patient and families. The aims of this literature review are to identify the risk factors of stress and coping strategies to reduce stress among nurses during COVID-19 pandemic. The research question is the study is: 1. What are the causes and risk factors of stress facing nurses during a COVID-19 pandemic? 2. What are the coping strategies to reduce stress? The theoretical framework that is used in study is Transactional Model of Stress and Coping Theory. Ten research articles are chosen to collect information and the answering the research question. Inductive content analysis method has been chosen for analyzing data. Articles were collected through PubMed, Sage, ScienceDirect and Google scholar. The main findings of the study is workload, fear of being infected and fear of exposing their family and friends, less job experience, dealing with death and dying, long working hours, lack of social support and lack of personal protective equipment.