The Relationship of Nurse Prevention, Rescue Capabilities with Emergency Response Efforts to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) at Aceh Regional General Hospital : A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Emergency response is a series of activities that must be carried out immediately to reduce the adverse impacts
caused including basic needs, rescue activities and evacuation of victims. Nurses’ emergency response efforts
to COVID-19 are divided into four, namely prevention capabilities, psychological readiness, infection control
and emergency rescue capabilities. The purpose of this study was to analyzing factors influencing nurses’
emergency response with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Aceh Regional General Hospital. This type
of research is quantitative with a cross-sectional study design. The research sample based on the inclusion
and exclusion criteria was 89 respondents. Data analysis used univariate (descriptive statistics), bivariate (chi
square) and multivariate (logistic regression) methods. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that the
variable preventive ability (P-value 0.000) and emergency rescue capability (P-value 0.000) that were related to
emergency response efforts against COVID-19. The results of the multivariate analysis found that emergency
rescue capabilities were the most related factor to emergency response efforts (OR: 14,072). Based on the results
of the study, the most significant determinant of nurses’ emergency response efforts to COVID-19 is the ability to
rescue in the form of nurses’ attitudes and actions in providing nursing care. Emergency rescue capabilities can
break the chain of transmission of the COVID-19 virus and provide nursing care to patients who are confirmed
positive for COVID-19.