Nurses’ Attitude towards Nursing Process at Public Tertiary Care Hospital Lahore
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
Abstract:Nursing Process is a process used to prevent, identify and treat potential or actual health problems & promote wellness (Carlson, 2010). Regardless of nurse knowledge on nursing process, certain features limit the capability of nurses to implement it in their practice, including lesser time, patient volume high, patient turnover. To assess the Nurses’ attitude towards the nursing process in a public tertiary care hospital Lahore.Cross-sectional descriptive design was used to evaluate the attitude of nurses towards nursing process among clinical nurses working in Mayo Hospital. Sample size was selected by convenient selection and a sample n=150 staff nurses from medical, surgical and emergency ward were selected. A well-structured questionnaire with closed ended Likert scale is adopted from the previous studies. “Nurses’ Attitude to Nursing Process” Prideaux, 1991. This questionnaire was distributed among clinical nurses of medical, surgical and emergency ward in Mayo hospital. Data was analyzed through SPSS version 21 is statistical computer software for data analysis. The findings reveals that majority of the participants 78.76% were having negative attitude towards the nursing process, having attitude score of 75% or above while 21.33% of the participants had positive attitude towards the nursing process and got attitude score of above 75% score. Overall the attitude of nurses was not positive and majority had negative attitude, which need special attention. Keywords: Nurses’, Attitude, Nursing process
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Shazia Niaz, Afsar Ali, Roma Bhatti
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