Aim: To explore the experiences of nurses' work stress related to COVID-19 regular epidemic prevention and control in China.
Background:The global COVID-19 epidemic is still severe, and China's ongoing regular epidemic prevention and control still cannot be relaxed, which places demands on nurses.Methods: Thirty nurses and eight nurse managers were interviewed using semistructured in-depth interviews, and the data were analysed by the Colaizzi seven-step analysis method.Results: Four themes were extracted as follows: environmental factors, organizational factors, personal factors and positive factors in coping with stress.Conclusions: Nursing managers should pay attention to construction of the first-line departments of regular epidemic prevention and control. The shortage of nurses' human resources and the increase of nurse-patient conflicts are problems that need Xiumu Yang and Zhengfu Shen are co-correspondence of this article.
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