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vol. 17
 
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Original article

Resilience and professional commitment in nurses in practice in COVID-19 units compared to other nurses

Zeinab Joker
1
,
Camellia Torabizadeh
2
,
Zahra Movahednia
3
,
Leyla Hashemizadeh Fard Haghighi
4
,
Mostafa Bijani
5

1.
Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2.
Professor of Nursing, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
3.
Department of Operation Room, Behbahan Faculty of Medical, Behbahan, Iran
4.
Master Student of Medical Education, Nursing Manager, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
5.
Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran
Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia 2022; 17, 1–2: 108–114
Online publish date: 2022/07/21
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Introduction
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, nurses, as guardians of public health, have been fighting in the frontline of caring for the infected patients. Nurses’ personal and psychological capacities, including resilience and professional commitment, which enable them to cope with difficult conditions and continue providing quality care, should be investigated thoroughly. The present study aimed to compare nurses in practice in COVID-19 units with nurses who are in practice in other hospital units in terms of resilience and professional commitment.

Material and methods
This was a descriptive-comparative study. In total, 6914 nurses (3609 nurses from COVID-19 units and 3305 nurses from general units) participated in the study. The study context was 13 hospitals, which were selected from nine cities in Fars and Khuzestan, as the southern provinces of Iran.

Results
The findings of the study showed that the professional commitment mean scores of nurses in COVID-19 units and nurses in general units were relatively high, as 45 and 55.5, respectively. Moreover, the resilience mean scores of nurses in COVID-19 units and those in general units were high, 82.5 and 93.5, respectively. Pearson’s correlation coefficient showed a significant direct relationship between professional commitment and resilience in the nurses in COVID-19 units (r = 0.74, p < 0.001) and nurses in general units (r = 0.57, p < 0.001).

Conclusions
In view of the existence of a significant positive relationship between resilience and professional commitment, some measures were designed to increase nurses’ resilience that can improve their professional commitment as well.

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COVID-19, resilience, professional commitment, nurses, nursing

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