Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19
Yıl: 2022 Cilt: 30 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 55 - 63 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 İndeks Tarihi: 10-06-2022
Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19
Öz: AIM: This study aimed to examine health problems and related reasons for stress including physiological, psychological, and patient-care-related
stressors among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses during COVID-19 in Turkey.
METHOD: This study was designed as a cross-sectional study. Data were collected between June and July 2020 and from 1140 ICU nurses who
were actively working in the pandemic process from 65 provinces in Turkey. An online questionnaire was used consisting of questions regarding
nurses’ health problems, reasons for psychological, physiological, and patient care-related stress during the pandemic. Descriptive data were
presented in mean, median, or number and percentage.
RESULTS: Only 15.6% of ICU nurses experienced health problems. Nurses had psychological symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia, and physiological
symptoms such as respiratory, musculoskeletal symptoms. The majority of nurses experienced the following psychological stressors: fear of being
a COVID-19 carrier and infecting loved ones, and getting sick with COVID-19. Reasons for physiological stress were mostly due to working with
personal protective equipment (PPE), skipping toilet breaks, and inadequate hydration. Reasons for patient care-related stress included excessive
sweating in PPE, fogging of goggles, and inability to select a venipuncture site with double gloves.
CONCLUSION: The findings of this study indicate that almost one-fifth of ICU nurses experience various health problems although most of them
experience intense psychological, physiological, and patient care-related stress.
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| Chicago | ALTUN UGRAS GÜLAY,Yüksel Serpil,KETTAŞ DÖLEK ELİFE,erden sevilay,Şirin Keziban Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19. (2022): 55 - 63. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
| MLA | ALTUN UGRAS GÜLAY,Yüksel Serpil,KETTAŞ DÖLEK ELİFE,erden sevilay,Şirin Keziban Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19. , 2022, ss.55 - 63. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
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| IEEE | ALTUN UGRAS G,Yüksel S,KETTAŞ DÖLEK E,erden s,Şirin K "Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19." , ss.55 - 63, 2022. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
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| APA | ALTUN UGRAS G, Yüksel S, KETTAŞ DÖLEK E, erden s, Şirin K (2022). Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19. Florence Nightingale journal of nursing (Online), 30(1), 55 - 63. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
| Chicago | ALTUN UGRAS GÜLAY,Yüksel Serpil,KETTAŞ DÖLEK ELİFE,erden sevilay,Şirin Keziban Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19. Florence Nightingale journal of nursing (Online) 30, no.1 (2022): 55 - 63. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
| MLA | ALTUN UGRAS GÜLAY,Yüksel Serpil,KETTAŞ DÖLEK ELİFE,erden sevilay,Şirin Keziban Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19. Florence Nightingale journal of nursing (Online), vol.30, no.1, 2022, ss.55 - 63. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
| AMA | ALTUN UGRAS G,Yüksel S,KETTAŞ DÖLEK E,erden s,Şirin K Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19. Florence Nightingale journal of nursing (Online). 2022; 30(1): 55 - 63. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
| Vancouver | ALTUN UGRAS G,Yüksel S,KETTAŞ DÖLEK E,erden s,Şirin K Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19. Florence Nightingale journal of nursing (Online). 2022; 30(1): 55 - 63. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
| IEEE | ALTUN UGRAS G,Yüksel S,KETTAŞ DÖLEK E,erden s,Şirin K "Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19." Florence Nightingale journal of nursing (Online), 30, ss.55 - 63, 2022. 10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
| ISNAD | ALTUN UGRAS, GÜLAY vd. "Health Problems and Reasons for Stress of Intensive Care Nurses During COVID-19". Florence Nightingale journal of nursing (Online) 30/1 (2022), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.5152/fnjn.2022.21002 |
