Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2018 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 8 Articles
Ethical practice is a key component of professionalism and needs to be instilled in curricula across courses. Nurse educators should act with honesty and integrity to maintain high standards of ethics and professional behaviour. The aim of the study was to assess the professional practice attributes among nurse educators. Cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect data from 343 nurse educators from various nursing colleges of three conveniently selected northern states of India using maximum variation sampling. A five point likert scale was developed to measure the professional practice attributes of study subjects. The overall professional practice attributes were rated high by the subjects with the mean percentage score of 85.64% (MeanSD of 145.6±21.80). Different professional practice attributes among the subjects were the sprit of inquiry (88%), accountability and autonomy (87.76%), knowledge (87.75%), collegiality and collaboration (87.15%), ethics and values (86.72%), advocacy (83.56%), citizenship and professional engagement (82.60%) and innovation and visionary (81.40%). There was no significant difference among nurse educators from different states in terms of professional practice attributes (P=0.25). Study concluded that overall professional practice attributes among nurse educators was high which is indicative of professionalism among nurse educators. Statutory and professional nursing bodies should initiate steps to facilitate environment conducive for the enhancement of professionalism among the nurse educators....
Introduction. To assess knowledge and attitude towards exclusive breast feeding among mothers attending antenatal care and\nimmunization clinic inDabatHealth Center,Northwest Ethiopia, 2016. Methodology. Institutional based descriptive cross-sectional\nstudy was conducted. The data was collected by using pretested, structured interview based questionnaires. The data were entered\nand analyzed using SPSS version 20. Result. A total of 384 participants were included in the study with a response rate of 100%. The\nmajority were in the age groups of 20ââ?¬â??30 (66.9%) and the mean age was 27.65; 325 (84.6%) were Orthodox Christianity followers.\nMajority were of Amhara ethnicity 370 (96.4%). Based on knowledge score, 268 (69.8%) were grouped as having good knowledge\nand regarding attitudinal score, 92 (24%) of the study participants were categorized as having negative attitude towards exclusive\nbreast feeding (EBF) and the remaining 292 (76%) were categorized as having positive attitude. Conclusion. In this study, the\nknowledge of study participant mothers towards EBF is low which is less than three-fourths; however positive attitude towards\nEBF is more than three-fourths in this study. The authors recommend that health care workers who work in the areas of maternal\nand child health clinic should give appropriate information about EBF....
This study explored the Australian midwives� role in the provision of nutrition advice. Little is known about their perceptions of\nthis role, the influence of the model of care, and the barriers and facilitators that may influence them providing quality nutrition\nadvice to pregnant women. Semistructured telephone interviews were undertaken with a subsample (...
Background: Nurse practice environment has been identified as an important factor in improving the quality and\nsafety of hospital care. However, there are few studies that assess the characteristics of the hospital work\nenvironment and its impact on patient outcomes.\nThe aim of the study: To evaluate the characteristics of the nurse�s practice environment regarding the quality of\npatient care as perceived by staff nurses.\nSubject and methods: Research design, quantitative design, non-experimental descriptive was utilized.\nSetting: This research was carried out in four governmental hospitals in Port Said city. Subjects included (300) of\nstaff nurses who are working at previous hospitals to participate in research study dealing with characteristics of\nnurse�s practice environment regarding the quality of patient care. The tool of data collection: the one tool was used\nto collect data which aimed to measures eight characteristics of the work environment and quality of patient care.\nResults: It revealed that the highest level of agreement score (75.7%) for characteristics of the nursing practice\nenvironment scale on the unit level was for supportive nurse manager relationships, followed by working with other\nnurses who are clinically competent while 17.5% of studied nurses reported agreement regarding support for\neducation in nursing work environment.\nConclusion: There were the means differences between characteristics of practice environment tool and\ndemographic variables as well as quality patient care at units� levels from nurse�s perceptions. Overall response\nmean scores for the nurse was a very high quality of patient care as perceived by staff nurses.\nRecommendation: Implement continuous training for nurse�s managers about enhancing effective\ncommunication by creating an environment which permits to express ideas empower and encourage staff nurses to\nparticipate in decision-making and problem-solving process....
Background: Cultural diversity often leads to misunderstandings, clashes, conflicts, ethnocentrism, discrimination,\nand stereotyping due to the frequent intersection of many variables, such as differences in traditions, behaviours,\nethical and moral perspectives, conceptions of health and illness, and language barriers. The root of the issue is related\nto the way people conceptualise differences and the unique cultural and historical circumstances that have shaped\ndifferent groups� heritages. In this study, therefore, we aimed to investigate the perceptions of critical cultural competence\n(CCC) of registered nurses working in various hospitals across the province of British Columbia, Canada.\nMethod: Data were collected using Almutairi�s Critical Cultural Competence Scale (CCC Scale) with a random sample\nof 170 registered nurses. This scale measures four essential multidimensional components of the CCC model: critical\nawareness, critical knowledge, critical skills, and critical empowerment. Data were analysed using descriptive and\ninferential statistics (Kruskal-Wallis test).\nResults: The data revealed that participants� perceptions of CCC were positive with a mean score of 5.22 out of\n7.00 for the total number of items (n = 43) and a standard deviation of 0.54. The mean scores for the CCC subscales\nranged from 4.76 (for critical skills) to 5.42 (for critical empowerment). The results indicated a statistical difference in\nCCC perceptions based on participants� age and country of birth with p = 0.05 < 0.05 and 0.029 < 0.05, respectively.\nConclusion: Nurses� age (experience) and country of birth may influence their perceptions of CCC as gaining cultural\ncompetence requires exposure to caring for patients from various cultures and countries, and is associated with\ncultural knowledge and awareness. Therefore, this finding reveals that healthcare organizations must provide ongoing\ncultural education programs to increase their nursing staff�s level of cultural competence so they are better able to deal\nwith the difficulties that might arise during cross-cultural interactions....
Background: Decubitus ulcers are associated with a burden for the patients and cause enormous costs. One of the\nreasons for the development of decubitus is prolonged exposure to pressure. The aim of this pilot study was to\nexamine the pressure distribution of healthy individuals either positioned in Positioning in Neutral (LiN) or\nconventional positioning (CON).\nMethods: Four healthy participants were positioned in a supine, 30�° degree side lying and 90�° side lying position\nboth in LiN and CON. A thousand pressure sensors in a mattress enabled a visual presentation of low, medium and\nhigh pressure on a screen. This presentation was processed by Photoshop in order to count the pixels representing\nthe total support pressure surface and the pressure intensity.\nResults: LiN showed, on average, a smaller surface with measurable pressure compared to CON (46,293 versus\n64,090 pixels). The areas of medium pressure were comparable. Mean areas of low and high pressure were both\nsmaller in LiN as compared to CON (low: 8315 versus 22,790 pixels; high: 3744 versus 7277 pixels).\nConclusion: The results of this pilot study indicate that LiN is suitable for pressure sore prophylaxis because LiN\nshowed less support surface and less maximum pressure as compared to CON...
Patient classification systems generate information for staff allocation based on a patient�s care needs. This study aims to test further\nthe instrument for assessing nursing intensity (NI) in perioperative settings. Nine operating departments from five university\nhospitals were involved. The perioperative nurses gathered data from patients (...
Introduction. The Royal Monarchy in Saudi Arabia decreed that all sectors of the workforce would be subject to a policy of\nââ?¬Å?Saudisationââ?¬Â to reduce the reliance on the expatriate workforce and to reduce the unemployment rate of Saudi nationals (Al-\nMahmoud et al., 2012). Methodology. A cross-sectional design was chosen to investigate the research questions. The population of\nthis study comprised Saudi Registered Nurses working inMOHhospitals in Riyadh which is the main health care provider in Saudi\nArabia (Aboul-Enein, 2002; MOH, 2009). Results and Findings. A total number of 1,198 questionnaires were distributed and 61.2%\n(...
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