Challenges Nurses Facing by Working during a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Abstract

Relevance of the study: The virus of COVID-19 suddenly exploded into the world, gradually becoming a worldwide pandemic. Nurses were there because of Spanish flu, Ebola and now they are standing between COVID-19 and the rest of humanity, nurses are the largest healthcare work force in the world, without them it is impossible to imagine a full-fledged work in the healthcare system. In order to maintain the work of professional nurses during a pandemic, it is important to understand what psychological, physical, social changes nurses are currently experiencing. Research aim: To evaluate what challenges nurses facing by working during a coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Tasks of bachelor’s thesis: 1. To describe what psychological impact of the pandemic healthcare workers has. 2. Identify what physical discomfort nurses feel when working with personal protec tive equipment. 3. Determine what nurses’ responsibilities and obligations changed. 4. Evaluate what positive aspects of the pandemic nurses feel. Methods: Scientific literature analysis; quantitative online questionnaire method; results analysis Conclusions: The results of the research showed that most nurses feel headaches, weakness be cause of personal protective equipment. Also, they are thinking that psychology therapies can be useful, because nurses feel increased anxiety, fear and fatigue while working during pandemic. The research showed that nurses did not get enough information about Covid-19 disease. The big gest part of nurses agreed that thought pandemic they learned more about hygiene, infectious dis eases.