An Exploratory Study to Identify the Factors Affecting the Management of Covid-19 Patients among Nursing Officers at Selected Hospital, Puducherry

: The pandemic outbreak of covid -19 especially caused by the pathogen called corona virus2 (SARS-CoV-2) which causes severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (SARS) .This virus especially affects the more elderly individual than youth and more men than women and killed over 80,000 in china. It was established by WHO.


INTRODUCTION
The newly discovered corona virus (COVID-19) was found in December 2019 which was emerged in city of Wuhan, China and which was affected millions of peoples worldwide and it becomes pandemic disease.COVID_19 has various clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic to symptomatic leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and multiple organ failure, finally death.The World Health Organization (WHO) Infection and Prevention control (IPC) standards suggested that it was pandemic disease so, health facility should offers maximum protection and safety to patients, and health workers.Corona viruses are many crown like spikes on the surface of the virus.It especially spreads by air droplets by when an infected person sings, sneeze, coughs, talk, laugh or breathes nearby another person.
It affected all the age groups with the severe symptomatic and high mortality rate being found among elder peoples and patients with co-morbidities.Many treatment guidelines were provided by WHO for managing the covid-19 patients including tablets, respiratory therapy, ICU treatment, ventilators etc.. Finally it was important to stress that the rated treatment recommendations.

Population
The population refers to a total category of persons or objects that meets out the criteria of study which is set by the Researches.Any set of persons objects or measurement having observable characteristics is common (Polit and Hungler 2013) In this study, population comprises of all Nursing officers in, Puducherry.

Sample
A subset of a population comprises of those selected to participate in the study (Polit and Beck (2013)).The sample for this study were Nursing officers who worked in covid ward during covid-19 pandemics in RGGW& CH HOSPITAL, puducherry.

Sample Size
The sample size was 50 Nursing officers working in RGGW& CH hospital, puducherry.

Sampling Technique
Purposive sampling technique was used for this study.

SAMPLING CRITERIA Inclusion criteria:
 Nursing officers who are willing to participate. Nursing officers who are all worked during covid 19 pandemic situation. Nursing officers of both male and female  Nursing officers who are all available at the time of data collection.Exclusion criteria:  Nursing officers who are all not available at the time of data collection. Nursing officers who are not willing to participate in data collection.The checklist was analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage distribution was used to analyze the data).The data was analyzed and discussed on the objectives of the study.The objective of the study was to identify the factors affecting the management of COVID patients among Nurses.

SECTION-A
Results highlights that among 50 samples, physical factors (31.4%), psychological factors (36.4%) and social factors (32.1%) affects the management of COVID 19 patients among Nursing Officers

CONCLUSION
Recent newspaper reports show that COVID-19 patients increasingly mistrust institutionalized health care due to the lack of reliability of the treatment at public and private hospitals caused by testing scandals and a preference for home-based treatment.The stakeholders should take appropriate measures so that patient confidence in the health-care system can be restored.The study Officers in RGGW&CH, Puducherry , were selected for this study.From the above table 4.1, findings were discussed below, Major Findings of the Study are Discussed as Follow:  Majority of the Nursing Officers belong to the age group of 20 -30 years (40%)  Majority of the Nursing Officers were females (88%)  Most of the Nursing Officers belong to nuclear family (74%). Majority of the nursing officers have 1 -5 years of experience (44%)  Most of the nursing officers have studied the course B.Sc and GNM (38%)  Majority of the nursing officers are married (60%)  Most of the nursing officers residing in urban area (70%)  Majority of the nursing officers do not have co-morbid illnesses (82%)  Most of the nursing officers had previous experience of working in contagious disease wards (52%)  Majority of the nursing officers have been vaccinated with COVID 19 Vaccine (60%)  Majority of the factors affecting the management of COVID patients among the nursing officers were the psychological factors.(36.4%)

Table : 4.1
Frequency and percentage distribution of Demographic variables of the Nursing Officers. ISSN:
* Corresponding Author: Mrs. V. Revathy Volume 04 Issue 12 December 2021 Available at: ijcsrr.orgPage No.-1782-1787 From the above table, it was evident that majority of the factors affecting the management of covid-19 patients were the psychological factors(36.4%)