Factors influencing nurses' intention to care for patients with COVID-19: Focusing on positive psychological capital and nursing professionalism.

Strategies to increase nurses' positive psychological capital are necessary to improve nursing care quality by increasing intention to care when facing novel infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Furthermore, adequate education and training on managing novel infectious diseases should be implemented to provide nurses with relevant experience and skills regarding caring for patients infected with these diseases. Through various studies, strategies for improving nurses' positive psychological capital need to be suggested to improve the quality of care by increasing the nurses' intention to care during the emergence of a novel infectious disease, such as COVID-19. Additionally, adequate education and training on managing the novel infectious diseases, sufficient for the nurses to believe they have the experience and skills for caring for the infected patients, will be needed.