Effect of Training Program About COVID-19 on Staff Nurses' Resilience

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Banha University, Egypt.

2 Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

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Background: Universally, nurses are a major force in the fight against COVID-19 which may have been reflected in nurses' resilience affects the quality and safety of the care for patients afflicted with the virus. Aim: This study aimed to the effect of training program About COVID-19 on staff nurses' resilience. Design: A quasi-experimental one-group pretest-post-test design was conducted in this study. Setting: Banha University Hospital. Subjects: A simple random sample of 150 staff nurses. Tools: Data for this study were collected by using two tools, namely: knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAPs) concerning the COVID-19 questionnaire, and the resilience scale for nurses. Results: This study revealed that staff nurses' knowledge, attitude, and infection prevention practice regarding COVID-19 during the post- and follow-up intervention was improved. Also, the staff nurses’ resilience level at the post- and follow-up intervention was increased. Conclusion: There was a positive strong statistically significant correlation between knowledge, attitude, infection prevention practice, and total level of resilience scores post and follow-up training program. Recommendations: Necessary resources should be available to allow nurses to work in a safe environment that may help in increasing resilience level during the fight against COVID-19, and the suggested future study to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on the performance quality of nurses and patient satisfaction.

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Volume 12, Issue 4
December 2021
Pages 2032-2046

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