Assessment of Nurses’ Attitudes Regarding COVID-19 in Al-Hilla Teaching Hospitals

Aims: Coronavirus Disease-2019, is a rapidly spreading pandemic triggered by a new human coronavirus. It was originally reported in December 2019 among patients with viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and has since become the globally most common dangerous health crisis, the aim of the study assess attitudes regarding COVID-19 among nurses. Find out the differences in nurses' attitudes and their selected demographic variables. Instrument & Methods: A descriptive study was carried out to assess nurses’ attitudes regarding COVID-19 in Al-Hilla teaching hospitals at Al-Hilla city from [25th September 2020] to [20 February 2022]. A convenient [non-probability sample] was selected for [200] nurses who are working at epidemic hospitals, The reliability of the instrument was [r = 0.711] for the domain of nurses' attitudes regarding COVID-19. Findings: The findings showed through the analysis of attitudes towards COVID-19 demonstrated that the majority of nurses [86 %] were expressed a positive attitude towards COVID-19, which illustrated the nurses had psychological attention to overcoming the covid-19 pandemic, there were important variances in the attitudes regarding COVID-19 at p-value <0.05 in related to nurses' ages, there were significant differences between nurses' about COVID-19 at p-value <0.05, concerning nurses' educational levels and displays that there were significant differences between nurses' attitudes regarding COVID-19 at p-value <0.05with the working years in nursing. Conclusion: Nurses expressed positive attitudes towards COVID-19. Nurses' attitudes toward COVID_19 had significant differences regarding the variables such as Nurses' age, education level and years of experience in nursing.