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Heading for the Frontline: Nursing Graduates Entering the Profession During a Global Pandemic.

Version 1 : Received: 28 December 2023 / Approved: 2 January 2024 / Online: 3 January 2024 (02:13:41 CET)

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Terry, V.R.; Parsons-Smith, R.L.; Elliott, J.; Roderick, G.; Luyke, P.; Terry, P.C. Heading for the Frontline: Mood, Stress, Resilience, and Coping of Nursing Graduates during a Global Pandemic. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1492. Terry, V.R.; Parsons-Smith, R.L.; Elliott, J.; Roderick, G.; Luyke, P.; Terry, P.C. Heading for the Frontline: Mood, Stress, Resilience, and Coping of Nursing Graduates during a Global Pandemic. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1492.

Abstract

COVID-19 affected health and wellbeing globally. Graduating nursing students face a variety of stressors and entering the nursing profession during the pandemic added additional stress. Mood, perceived stress, resilience, and coping were assessed in an Australian sample of 112 graduating nursing students, who completed the Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4), and Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS). Mean BRUMS scores for tension, fatigue, and confusion were significantly above population norms, and vigour scores significantly below. Mean PSS-4 scores were reflective of population norms, but showed higher levels of stress for younger and on-campus students compared to those who were older or who studied externally. BRCS data showed that 82.1% of the graduating nursing students were medium or high resilient copers. Mood profiles suggested that 19.6% of participants had elevated mental health risk, 23.2% showed potential risk of burnout, and only 17.9% reported mood profiles associated with positive mental health. High mean tension scores reported by the graduating nursing students indicated apprehension about joining the profession, although stress, resilience and coping scores suggested they were adequately managing the additional stressors generated by a global pandemic.

Keywords

Affect; coping; COVID; emotion; feeling; mood; nurse; stress

Subject

Public Health and Healthcare, Nursing

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