COVID-19 Pandemisinde Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Stres Düzeyi ve Başa Çıkma Davranışları ile Mesleki Hayata İlişkin Düşüncelerinin İncelenmesi

Abstract

It is known that nursing students perceive more stress than the students who are studying in other health disciplines. The pandemic period brought additional stress to nursing students and this period may have negatively affected their thoughts about the profession. It is aimed to determine the stress level of nursing students in the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate the behaviors of students in coping with stress and their thoughts about their future professional life in this process. The study was carried out as a descriptive and cross-sectional study on the 226 undergraduate nursing students. The data were collected via Google Form in June-July 2020 following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. The students perceived stress above the average. As the perceived stress level increases, the tendency to adopt the self-confident and optimistic approach decreases, and the tendency to adopt the helpless approach increases. The number of students who did not want to work in the pandemic service in the event of an epidemic such as COVID-19 was high (n=119), as well as the number of students (n=195) who stated that the COVID-19 epidemic process caused them to regret their career choice was. The COVID-19 has increased to the stress level of nursing students. The students did not cope with this stress effectively and their thoughts on future professional life affected in negatively.