Understanding Forgiveness in the Lives of Resilience Nurses during Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Working as a nurse during the Covid-19 pandemic has several challenges. Nurses serve a lot of sick people. Many nurses are desperate, but there are also nurses who are capable to resilience by forgiveness. How can nurses forgive their-self, others and the situations, so that it becomes resilience in the time of Covid-19 pandemic? This study aims to explore the forgiveness process in nurses who are resilient during the covid-19 pandemic. This study uses a qualitative approach through in-depth online interviews on five nurses who work in in hospitals and health centers of Medan and Jakarta cities. The results show that the process of forgiveness took benefit for their-self, others and the environment which (1) uncovering phases, (2) decision phase, (3) work phase, and (4) deepening phase. Forgiveness bring person able to survive, adapt, recover and endure the painful situation such as covid-19 pandemic. In addition, this study found that gratitude, religious, self-compassion, empathy, and self-control plays the important role to develop forgiveness among nurses. Consequently, resilience nurses rise healthy, become good employee, and able to maintain a better household and take care of their child.