Tingkat Kecemasan Perawat dalam Pelayanan Kesehatan di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

Abstract

• At the beginning of 2020, the world was shocked by the corona virus (Covid-19)

  outbreak which infected almost all countries in the world. The Word Health

  Organization (WHO) said that there were more than 215 countries that had

  confirmed Covid-19 on October 21, 2020, with 40,766,671 infected patients.

  Indonesia infected reached 368,842 people. West Papua Province infected

  with 3,688 people. Sorong Regency shows a total of 380 close contacts.

  The impact of mental health on Covid-19 on medical personnel as a whole,

  namely the presence of worry and feeling anxious about contracting the

  corona virus, worry of spreading it to family members, difficulty sleeping

  related to excessive anxiety, fear of contracting because of working in a risky

  unit and worrying because PPE is not up to standard in treatment for

  Covid-19. The purpose of this study was to describe the level of anxiety of

  nurses in health services during the Covid-19 pandemic at Dr. Jhon

  Piet Wanane, Sorong Regency. This type of research is a quantitative

  study using descriptive methods. The population was all nurses who served in

  RSUD Dr. Jhon Piet Wanane, Sorong Regency. A sample of 180 people.

  This research was conducted for 1 month. The results showed that out of 180

  respondents, it was found that nurses experienced a severe level of anxiety, namely

  71 (39.4), moderate anxiety, namely 59 (32.8%), mild anxiety, namely 37

  (20.6%) and the least anxious, namely 13 (7.2%). The conclusion of this

  study is that most nurses experience moderate and severe anxiety.

  Suggestions for the nursing department of the hospital to form a stress

  management team to deal with the stress or anxiety experienced by nurses during the

  Covid-19 pandemic.