Table 3.

Health Care Workers’ Attitudes Between Registered Nurses and Other Workers

	Nurse (n = 163), No. (%)	Physicians, Midlevels, and Trainees (n = 175), No. (%)	P	Pa
How often have you worried about contracting COVID-19 from a patient?	138 (84.7)	124 (72.1)	.006	.018
Has the concern of acquiring COVID-19 infection as a result of patient care added to your stress level?	149 (92.5)	120 (70.6)	<.001	<.001
Think it is ethical to refuse to provide care for COVID-19-infected patients	25 (15.4)	12 (7.1)	.022	.009
Think it is ethical to refuse to provide care for patients with HIV/AIDS	17 (10.4)	10 (5.8)	.16	.069
Think it is ethical to refuse to provide care for patients with influenza	18 (11.1)	9 (5.3)	.07	.017
Will help a young boy lying on the street, unconscious and blue, by performing rescue breaths during CPR without protective equipment	54 (34.2)	63 (38)	.49	.604

Abbreviation: COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.

^aAdjusted for gender.