Studi Komparatif Stres Perawat yang Bekerja di Unit Gawat Darurat dan Ruang Isolasi pada Masa Pandemi COVID-19 di Rumah Sakit Kabupaten Jember

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had many impacts on various sectors, especially the health sector. Nurses who work 24 hours with patients must always provide holistic nursing care to patients with COVID-19 who have a very high risk of contracting it. Lack of personal protective equipment availability, high workload, anxiety and worry, and lack of social support for nurses caused stress to nurses working in the Emergency Unit and COVID-19 Isolation Room. This study aimed to compare the stress of nurses working in the Emergency Unit and Isolation Room during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Jember Regency Hospital. The design used in this study was a comparative study using 65 nurses as the sample in the working area of Jember Paru Hospital and 3rd level Baladhika Husada Hospital. The research instrument used in this study was a Healthcare Workers' Stress questionnaire. The test used Mann-Whitney.The result of median test comparison showed that stress score of emergency room was 21 while the isolation room was 32. The bivariate analysis results showed that there was a different level of stress of nurses in the emergency and isolation room at the Jember Regency Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic caused by factors of anxiety and social isolation, use of PPE, fear of being infected with the virus, and the high burden of caring for patients.