The Relationship of Nurse Prevention, Rescue Capabilities with Emergency Response Efforts to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) at Aceh Regional General Hospital : A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Emergency response is a series of activities that must be carried out immediately to reduce the adverse impactscaused including basic needs, rescue activities and evacuation of victims. Nurses’ emergency response effortsto COVID-19 are divided into four, namely prevention capabilities, psychological readiness, infection controland emergency rescue capabilities. The purpose of this study was to analyzing factors influencing nurses’emergency response with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Aceh Regional General Hospital. This typeof research is quantitative with a cross-sectional study design. The research sample based on the inclusionand exclusion criteria was 89 respondents. Data analysis used univariate (descriptive statistics), bivariate (chisquare) and multivariate (logistic regression) methods. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that thevariable preventive ability (P-value 0.000) and emergency rescue capability (P-value 0.000) that were related toemergency response efforts against COVID-19. The results of the multivariate analysis found that emergencyrescue capabilities were the most related factor to emergency response efforts (OR: 14,072). Based on the resultsof the study, the most significant determinant of nurses’ emergency response efforts to COVID-19 is the ability torescue in the form of nurses’ attitudes and actions in providing nursing care. Emergency rescue capabilities canbreak the chain of transmission of the COVID-19 virus and provide nursing care to patients who are confirmedpositive for COVID-19.