Community nurse strategy to realize resilient communities in COVID-19 outbreak towards a new normal era

The increase in COVID-19 positive patients in the New Normal era has led to support from various fields, including health, community nurses. In this New Normal era, community nurses should promote healthy lifestyles and prevention against COVID-19 but still have an optimal impact. Many people still have low awareness and discipline to prevent COVID-19. Types of quantitative descriptive research through interviews with expert respondents, literature studies, and questionnaires. The questionnaire results showed the paired comparison strategy’s priority using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method. The results showed that determining the strategy used three criteria or indicators: human resources related to community nurses, communities, and cooperation. Systems that can be done by the government, namely Improving the quality and quantity of community nurses, Mapping the distribution of community nurses, Approaches to community leaders and related health institutions, Conducting regular reporting and evaluation, Socialization of health protocols through concrete actions, Making one family member as a family nurse, Conducting counseling services or trauma healing, and Conducting control of the community. However, this strategy is not necessarily able to be implemented by other parties. So the priority strategy is to improve the quality and quantity of community nurses with the highest score of 33.4%. Then followed by one family member as a family nurse value of 22.9% and control the community with a weight of 15.5%.