Abstract: Objective: To determine the coping capacity of nurses from Shanghai aiding Hubei province to fight against COVID-19 and its influencing factors. Methods: 119 nurses from three grade A hospitals in Shanghai working on the frontline against COVID-19 were recruited for the questionnaire survey. Results: the average score of the scale of coping capacity to treat infectious disease emergencies of nurses was 3.76±0.57. Compared with the normal situation, the total score of the scale and the scores of all dimensions except the dimension of "response to infectious disease emergencies under specific circumstances" were significantly higher (P<0.05). The scores of responses to infectious disease emergencies, monitoring, reporting and laws and regulations were relatively low. The results of influencing factor analysis showed that nurses' coping capacity to infectious disease emergencies was affected by their education level, training of infectious diseases, protection and emergency response processes. Conclusion: The coping ability of the nurses in Hubei province was on a relatively high level, but there were also some weak points in them which needed to be improved through efficient training, including the characteristics of infectious diseases, diagnosis and treatment, protective measures, emergency responses. In addition, nurses with a higher education level who could deal with infectious diseases in a more professional and efficient way should play a more important role in the professional and scientific researches of epidemic responses.

Key words: COVID-19; nurses aiding Hubei; coping capacity to treat infectious disease emergencies