Background: Resilience is the capacity to bounce back and quickly recover from the stress experienced by a person. The resilience of frontline COVID 19 Fighters, especially the working nurses needs a great deal of attention during this era of COVID 19 pandemic. Literature on the impact of supportive interventions on resilience of 92 nurses in isolation ward during the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the total resilience score was 87.04 ± 22.78, the mean resilience score was negatively associated with the scores of other domains of psychopathological symptoms. This study concluded that the high resilience promotes physical and mental health. Objectives: The objectives were to assess the Resilient Coping of nurses working among patients diagnosed with COVID 19 and to identify the relationship between resilient coping and selected socio demographic variables. Materials and methods: A quantitative approach with cross sectional descriptive design were adopted for the study. The data collected from 141 registered nurses from various parts of the world through online platform. The sampling technique was convenience sampling. The study included the registered nurses working in hospitals where patients with COVID–19 are treated and the study excluded nurses who have been severely affected and not able to respond to the data collection instruments provided. The data collection instruments were a socio demographic proforma and Brief Resilient Coping Scale Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Volume 10 Number 2, May-August 2021 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jpn.2277.9035.10221.2 Jobin Tom1, Reena George2, Elizabeth K Thomas3, P KrishnaKumar4 Authors Affiliation 1,3Assistant Professor, 1,3Department of Psychiatric Social work, 2Assistant Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, 4Director, Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Kozhikode 673008, Kerala, India. Corrosponding Affiliation Reena George, Assistant Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Kozhikode 673008, Kerala, India. Email: reenaalancheril@gmail.com How to cite this article: Jobin Tom, Reena George, Elizabeth K Thomas, et al./Resilient Coping of Nurses working Among Patients with Covid 19 -A Cross Sectional online Survey,J PsychiatrNurs.2021:10(2):19-24. © Red Flower Publication Pvt. Ltd. (Sinclair and Wallston, 2004). The collected data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: This study reveals that 52% of nurses were currently working in India, 14.2% from Saudi Arabia and 7.8% from UK and UAE each. Majority of the sample 78 (55.5%) had BSc Nursing education; mostof the sample (36.7) had 6-10 years of clinical experience. Most of the sample 69 (48.9%) had low resilient coping 53 (37.6 %) had medium resilient coping and 19 (13.5%) had high resilient coping. Correlation of resilient coping scores with socio demographic variables were assessed using Karl Pearson’s correlation and there were no significant relationship between resilient coping and selected socio demographic variables at 0.05 level. This study concludes that it is clinically relevant to address the resilient coping of nurses caring for patients with COVID 19 to plan and implement various resilience programmes to promote the physical and mental health of nurses working among patients with COVID 19.

Keywords: Resilience; Coping; Nurses; COVID 19.