Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: October-December | Volume: 6 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 159-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20211022
Hospitals’ and Nurses’ Preparedness to COVID-19 Pandemic
Rana Abdel Fattah Al Awamleh
Assistant Professor, Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Jerash University, Jerash, Jordan.
ABSTRACT
Background: Human corona virus disease (COVID-19) is a contagious disease that has been suggested to have a negative impact on both health care system and health care providers, and this was mainly attributed to the rapid and unexpected spread of this pandemic.
Purpose: This study was conducted to assess the level of preparedness of Jordanian nurses and hospitals to COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: cross-sectional, descriptive design was used. Data were collected through electronic survey questionnaires from 306 nurses from seven Jordanian hospitals. A modified version of tool developed by Elhadi and colleagues (2020) was used to collect data regarding the preparedness of nurses and hospitals to COVID-19 pandemic.
Results: The majority of nurses (84.3%) have participated in care provision for clients with COVID-19. Findings of this study revealed that male, older, more experienced nurses scored significantly higher on nurses’ preparedness scale. About 60% of nurse participants perceived their hospitals to be well-prepared to COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusion: The level of preparedness among nurse was found to be good, but not optimal. Greater emphasis should be placed on younger and less experienced nurses. Urgent actions should be taken to enhance the health institutes’ preparedness, particularly in terms of infection control domain.
Keywords: COVID-19, Preparedness, Nurses, Hospitals, Pandemic.