Abstract
Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a newly discovered ribonucleic acid coronavirus isolated and identied from patients with unexplained pneumonia. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Hence the investigator was interested to explore the emotions and experience of the covid care nurses during covid 19 pandemic. This would identify to manage the factors causing the emotions and make better arrangements for good experience among these nurses. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was done with 54 Covid care nurses available during the data collection period by using selfadministered questionnaire in Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences Results: The nding highlights that most of the nurses(43%) were on frequent duties in the covid wards than covid intensive care unit. 70% were not positive to Covid-19 and majority (80%) had covid vaccination. Many (69%) of their family/friends were not infected by Covid-19 and most of them (72%) had not witnessed death of a covid patient. Majority (74%) of covid care nurses did not have emotion of fear but had anxiety (70%) for can't eat/drink and can't use toilet. The results show that nearly half of the covid care nurses overcame fear (46%) and anxiety (45%) emotions because of condence at work & support from coworkers (39%), family and friend's support (37%) and faith in God (24%). Majority of the nurses were highly exhausted in personal experience areas like interpersonal (86%), mental (82%), emotional (80%) and physical (72%) whereas rarely exhausted (67%) in sleep experience. Nurses experienced highly adequate in work related aspects like team members number (83%), resources (78%), time for care (100%), help from others(96%) whereas 100% covid care nurses experienced rarely adequate cooperation from patient/relative. Conclusion: This shows the signicance of the good working environment with supportive team, resources and time
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