Introduction: Resilience and self-efficacy are important factors in predicting nurses' willingness

to take care of patient with emerging infectious disease.15-16 Resilience is defined as the ability to

face adverse situations while remaining focused and optimist for the future. This attribute is

considered vital for clinical nurses who are continually confronted with competing priorities and

a complex health care system. Self-efficacy reflects a sense of confidence in individual’s capacity

to achieve tasks.7 It refers to the iraction, level of motivation and psychological state.8 The self[1]

efficacy of nurses is correlated with mental health, resilience and job burnout.9-11 This pandemic

has exerted a significant strain on the health care system worldwide. The workload, risks of

infection, uncertainty, stigmatization and lack of resources and accessibility has jeopardized the

psychological wellbeing of health care workers.17-19 Nurses experienced significant stress and

psychological difficulties.20

Objectives: The aim is to assess and compare the resilience, & self-efficacy among nurses who

worked in dedicated COVID hospital vs non-COVID hospitals.

Design and Methods: It’s a comparative, Non-experimental research design study in which

data was collected from 220 participate by convenience sampling technique from online survey

via google form by using socio demographic variables and Resilience Scale and self-efficacy scale.

The content validity revealed that tool was valid, and reliability was found within acceptable

range.

Data analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: Resilience is high in nurses (27.42%) who have worked in COVID dedicated hospital

than nurses (22.37%) who have worked in Non-COVID dedicated hospital; Self-efficacy is high

in nurses (45.16%) who have worked in COVID dedicated hospitals than that of nurses (30.26%)

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who have worked in Non -COVID dedicated

hospitals.

Discussion: Result indicates the vitality of self-efficacy and resilience among nurses.

During the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, health-care workers with low self-efficacy

experienced higher fear. Poor mental health outcomes among nurses warrants the

need to implement practice psychological interventions to clear the collapse of the

healthcare system in responding to the  pandemic and in particular all possible efforts should be undertaken to mitigate the risk factor.   Healthcare organizations should provide the support to the nurse with sufficient flexibility, and  greater investment in the addressing the global shortage of nurses should be given priority in

national health policy.