Background, during a pandemic, healthcare professionals encounter various health hazards that affect their personal life and workplace. Emotion Management (EM) has a substantial impact on nurses' performance in the healthcare industry. However, previous research studies report inconsistent findings regarding how different levels of EM affect nurse performance (NP), particularly during pandemics. The present study contributes to the literature on this contemporary topic by investigating the impact of EM on NP among nurses during COVID-19 crisis. Methods: In a convenience sampling, 110 nurses from Tala General Hospital completed an online survey assessing EM and NP during COVID-19 climax levels in March and May, 2020. Only nurses who had direct contact with patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were eligible. Catherine managing emotion scale was used in a cross-sectional design to determine participants' EM. Empirically, NPS was measured by the Nurse Performance scale (NPS). Results: The results revealed that highest percentages of study subjects described calmness and peace of mind, happiness, as not felt. Their respective percentages were (81.8%), (90.9%). 100% of study subjects expressed headache and 90.9% expressed nervous feeling. Two third of them are fatigued, and 90% have sleep restlessly. 45.5 have moderately suppressing their emotion, while 54.4 are moderately burned out. However the result found that all the participants 100% have competent job performance.
Conclusion:The finding revealed that nurses working in quarantine are risk for burn out, depression, frustration, and manifestation of anxiety. However job performance not affected by their way of managing emotion. Recommendation:Establishing periodical psych educational program for nurses and health team to manage the psychological consequences of working with COVID 19 patients.
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