Evaluation of Nursing Interventions in Integrated Management of Chronically III Patients.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
The decision-making process at team level involves shared responsibilities for client’s outcome. This study evaluated nursing interventions in integrated management of chronically ill patients. It was a crosssectional research design. Purposive sample of 240 nurses working in secondary and tertiary health care institutions in Anambra State of Nigeria were used for the study. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire on nursing interventions in integrated management of chronically ill patients. Standard descriptive statistics was used to summarize the variables. Mean scores were used to answer the research questions and Pearson product moment correlation was adopted in testing the null hypotheses at 0.01 level of significance. Nurses were noted to provide high level of client health assessment and self-management supports in integrated care of the chronically ill patients. Also the health assessments and self-management supports provided by the nurse professionals correlated significantly with the interactions among the practice team as well as nurses optimization of client therapy respectively.
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Edith N. Chiejina
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