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Title: | Nurses’ Perceptions of Covid -19 Pandemic in Pontianak City West Kalimantan Indonesia: A Qualitative Study (KR) | Authors: | wuriani STIK Muhamamdiyah Pontianak |
Keywords: | Perception, Nurse, Covid-19. | Abstract: | Nurses are the most substantial medical personnel in a hospital or community health center and they have the highest frequency of contacts with patients in 24 hours. They are highly active during the pandemic, which made them vulnerable to the virus. Causing the nurses to be easily stressed and fatigued which will affect their body and eventually their immune system. The nurses were also overwhelmed by the fact that their families and friends can contract the virus from them if they were infected. In addition, there‟s also fear of rejections and discriminations from the society towards them and their families. Objective to describe and to explore the perceptions of nurses as medical workers on the co-19 pandemic in Pontianak City, West Kalimantan. For method, this research uses a qualitative descriptive method with the phenomenological approach by interviewing five nurses who have worked with COVID-19 patients in a state-owned hospital. For the result of this study, the researchers have found six themes related to nurses 'perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely 1) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of nurses, 2) Nurses' efforts to protect themselves from COVID-19, 3) causes that resulted to nurses exposure to the COVID-19, 4) Nurses' experience when using PPE, 5) Obstacles and challenges experienced by nurses during co-19, 6) Nurse's expectations during epidemic COVID-19. | Description: | Covid -19, is a potentially fatal disease that represents a major global public health problem. The SARS-CoV2 virus infects the lower respiratory tract and causes pneumonia in their victims, with milder symptoms compared to the SARS or MERS infections, but ultimately turned into a deadly hyperinflammatory disease and respiratory dysfunction [7]. The outbreak of the COVID 19 virus that developed in a relatively short time from 2019 began from the city of Wuhan, China, made all the countries in the world have to fight in various lines and divisions to survive together. The situation got worse when vaccines and specific treatments have yet to be discovered as they are still in the research phase. Various sectors such as economic, social, and political sectors have reached a critical phase during the pandemic and the last one holding as the most crucial sector during the pandemic is the health sector. Health workers such as doctors, nurses, and nutritionists are those who will be the first to be exposed to the virus due to their job treating the infected patients. | URI: | http://repo.stikmuhptk.ac.id/jspui/handle/123456789/229 |
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