A Study to Assess the Stress Level among Staff Nurses Working in Clinical Settings of Delhi, NCR during Covid Crisis

Abstract

Back ground of the study: The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to healthcare systems across the globe. The rapid spread of the disease in late 2019 and early 2020 caught many healthcare systems off guard and scrambling to provide intensive care unit beds, ventilators, and personal protective equipment (PPE) for both healthcare workers and patients. With the pandemic, nurses have confronted a perfect storm of conditions that threaten their health, well-being, and ability to perform their jobs. Media reports from many of the world’s COVID hotspots document extreme exhaustion, physical discomfort from long working hours with face masks and other PPE, fear of contagion, and emotional distress in nurses. This combination of physical and emotional strain on an already stressed nursing workforce has become a hallmark of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Problem statement: A Study to Assess the Stress Level among Staff Nurses Working in Clinical Settings of Delhi, NCR during Covid Crisis.

Objectives: To assess the stress level of staff nurses working in clinical settings during covid crisis.