Attitude of nursing students towards Internet-based nursing services for the aged

Abstract

Objective To investigate the attitude, willingness, and motivation of third-year undergraduate nursing students from a university of Chinese medicine toward Internet - based nursing services for the aged (IBNSA), providing a reference for its development and related nursing education. Methods This study was conducted from March to April 2019. Using a self-designed questionnaire, this cross-sectional study comprised 508 third-year undergraduate nursing students from a university of Chinese medicine. The questionnaire was divided into two parts. The first part contained the general information of nursing students. The second part investigated nursing students’ attitudes, willingness, and motivation towards IBNSA (a total of seven questions). Results Of the 508 nursing students, 314 (61.81%) expressed support for the IBNSA, 44(8.66%) expressed disapproval. Regarding career choice, 279 (54.92%) were willing to choose IBNSA, 51 (10.04%) were unwilling. The top three motivations for choosing IBNSA as a nursing student career were increased income, high autonomy and flexibility, and good job prospects. On the contrary, the top three reasons not to choose this option were safety concerns, lack of time and energy, and unwillingness to undertake elderly care. Experience with community activities or a part-time job, experience with elderly care, willing to choose the nursing profession, willing to engage in nursing care after graduation, and willing to engage in nursing for elderly patients after graduation were significantly associated with the motivation of nursing students to participate in IBNSA ( P < 0.05). Conclusion The majority of nursing students have a positive attitude towards IBNSA and are willing to choose it as their future career. Nurses’ and patients’ safety guarantees and salary distribution were critical factors influencing their choice. Nursing schools should pay attention to the concerns of nursing students, constantly improve the management system of IBNSA, strengthen safety education, and provide professional knowledge and skills to improve the quality of personnel training.

Nurses' perceptions of engaging in internet‐based nursing services: A qualitative study based on three hospitals in China

“…The randomness, immediacy and disposability of internet‐based nursing services can maximise the use of nursing human resources, but the specificity of the service site and the unpredictability of the population and the emergencies they face also increase safety risks for nurses and patients (Xie, 2019 ; Zhao et al, 2021 ). Such services should be demand‐driven and refined in terms of theoretical knowledge, operational skills, safety awareness, ethics and regulations, communication and etiquette, operational environment, use of items and equipment, medical consumables and medical waste disposal, risk warning awareness, rapid response capability and first aid techniques; in addition, such services should seek to develop practical, scientific and quantitative training programmes to improve the professionalism and qualifications of nurses (Shen et al, 2021 ; Xv et al, 2020 ; Zhao et al, 2022 ).…”

“…The randomness, immediacy and disposability of internet-based nursing services can maximise the use of nursing human resources, but the specificity of the service site and the unpredictability of the population and the emergencies they face also increase safety risks for nurses and patients (Xie, 2019;Zhao et al, 2021). Such services should be demand-driven and refined in terms of theoretical (Shen et al, 2021;Xv et al, 2020;Zhao et al, 2022).…”

“…Internet‐based nursing services are immediate, random and disposable, eliminating the time and space constraints of traditional care models, thereby maximising the human resources available for nursing and meeting the health needs of the population while increasing risks and challenges (Zhao et al, 2021 ; Zhao et al, 2022 ). Nurses are the main providers of internet‐based nursing services and only by fully understanding their views can targeted measures be taken to motivate them to participate and achieve the sustainability of the model (Hu, 2021 ).…”

“…Internet-based nursing services are immediate, random and disposable, eliminating the time and space constraints of traditional care models, thereby maximising the human resources available for nursing and meeting the health needs of the population while increasing risks and challenges (Zhao et al, 2021;Zhao et al, 2022).…”

Exploring that which lies beyond nursing's historic humanist preoccupation

“…Over recent years, nurse scholars have been experimenting with what our disciplinary world might look like from the perspective of a critical posthumanist stance, not only with respect to the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on health and health care (e.g., Archibald & Barnard, 2018; Ireland, 2017; Locsin et al, 2021; Zhao, 2023), but also as it might be applied to such global matters as planetary and social justice (Braidotti, 2013), and ultimately to an understanding of the fundamental premises, practices and processes of our own discipline (Petrovskaya, 2023). As Smith (2023, p. 22) has recently noted, “In a context in which the interconnectedness of life on earth is brought to the fore by rapid climate change and axioms of advanced capitalism, what it is to be human becomes interpellated.” Arguably, the COVID pandemic has accelerated the kind of nursing theorizing that takes us beyond the portrayal of persons as they have historically been situated within traditional humanism as the central focus of nursing concern (Anderson, 2023).…”