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The quality of working life and resilience among nurses in pediatric setting during Covid-19 pandemic
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Introduction: Nurses are the most significant part of the health care delivery system.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system is one of the institutions that operate
under the most challenging conditions during this outbreak. An increase in demands of
caring COVID-19 patients resulted in understaffing problem and high workload in health
organization. It is irrefutable that nurses all over the world are working under tremendous
stress which could affect their quality of working life, its dimensions and resilience.
Therefore, it is critical that each healthcare organization evaluate nurses' quality of working
life and resilience, both from the individual and the healthcare systems levels, in order to
design and initiate a supportive system to enhance their resilience and promote their QoWL
in such a stressful pandemic situation. Aim: To measure the quality of working life and
resilience among nurses in pediatric departments. Methodology: A quantitative crosssectional
study approach to assess the quality of working life (QoWL), its subscale, and
resilience among nurses working in four pediatric departments in the Centro Hospitalar
Universitario do Algarve (CHUA), Faro, using the Work-Related Quality of Life (WRQoL)
Scale and Measuring State Resilience Scale (Chok C. Hiew). Result: Most of nurses
experienced low QoWL, low level of QoWL in its six-subscales, and also had moderate
resilience state. Conclusion: Nurses experienced low QoWL and moderate resilience state.
Therefore, to reevaluate hospital’s policy and initiate supportive program to improve nurses
QoWL and resilience should be considered. Further study to investigate causes of low
QoWL is needed.
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Resilience Pediatric Covid-19 Quality pf working life.