Stress Among Nurses and Staff Dealing with Covid-19 Patients Research 2022

STRESS AMONG NURSES
AND STAFF DEALING WITH
COVID-19 PATIENTS

 Stress can arise from situations or event that can make a person feel angry,
frustrated or also nervous.
 Coronavirus disease also known as the COVID-19, is a diseases that has been
recently identified by the World Health Organization as an infectious pandemic
disease (Duan& Zhu, 2020).
 Coronavirus has caused stress among everyone especially among the heath care
professional who are mostly affected by it including- the doctors, nurses, front line
staff and others.
 One recent study had been conducted by Xiao et al., (2020) in order to understand
the effect of social support on the quality of sleep of the medical staff or healthcare
professionals treating the patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 or Covid-19.
 The results showed:
 The health care professional were facing stress and anxiety in dealing with the
Covid-19 patients
 It was affecting their sleep quality and self-efficacy negatively.
Introduction & background

Excessive demand of service:
 There is an excessive demand for the health
care professional for dealing with the Covid-
19 patients.
 The excessive demand is also causing stress
among the health care professional
because they are required
to do many task at the same
time (Pambuccian, 2020).
Literature Review

 The stress of the nurse and other health care professionals, dealing with
covid-19 patients is increasing because they are not being provided
sufficient safety measures at their workplaces (Chauhan et al., 2020).
 Their stress is enhanced when the question themselves whether they
are bringing the infection home.
 Moreover those nurses who are single mothers find it even more difficult
to go to work when there is no one at their home for looking after their
children.
Lack of infrastructure for operations of employees
 There is lack of proper infrastructure for the operations of the employees
which is enhancing the stress faced by the nurses and other medical
staff.
 The nurses union in many countries is demanding for improving the
safety measures being offered to the nurses because they are being
offered minimum support and there is lack of PPE or personal protective
equipment (Millar, 2020).
Lack of safety and infrastructure for
health care professionals and staff