Levels of Partnership between Nurses and Parents of Hospitalized Children and the Quality of Pediatric Nursing Care as Perceived by Nurses

Abstract

Purpose: This study investigated the relationship of the partnership between nurses and parents of hospitalized children with the quality of pediatric nursing care as perceived by pediatric nurses.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 90 nurses. The data collected were analyzed using the independent t-test and the Pearson correlation coefficient.Results: The level of partnership between nurses and parents showed significant differences by nurses’ age (t=2.22, <i>p</i>=.029) and marital status (t=2.54, <i>p</i>=.013). The quality of pediatric nursing care was found to significantly differ by the nurses’ age (t=2.62, <i>p</i>=.013), marital status (t=4.17, <i>p</i><.001), whether nurses had children (t=2.53, <i>p</i>=.020), pediatric ward work experience (t=2.43, <i>p</i>=.020), and total work experience (t=2.51, <i>p</i>=.016). The level of partnership between nurses and parents was positively correlated with the quality of pediatric nursing care (r=.48, <i>p</i><.001).Conclusion: To improve the quality of nursing care for hospitalized children and their parents, it is important to consider the specific characteristics of pediatric nurses, whose clinical skills should be improved.

Exploring the Influences of Nurses’ Partnership with Parents, Attitude to Families’ Importance in Nursing Care, and Professional Self-Efficacy on Quality of Pediatric Nursing Care: A Path Model

“…Nurses' experience, in other words, nurses' careers, showed the greatest total effect on the quality of respect, explanation, and skillfulness. This result coincides with that of Yoo et al [14], which reported that the quality of nursing care is high for experienced nurses. The characteristics of nurses are reported to be closely related to the quality of nursing provided to hospitalized children [22].…”

“…The program was reported as effective in terms of communication, mutual dependence, cooperation, information sharing, and careful and sensitive consideration [12]. The finding of this study was also similar to the results of Yoo et al [14], which reported that the higher the partnership between parents and nurses, the higher the quality of nursing care for hospitalized children. The result of this study was that nurse-parent partnership affected the quality of respect and kindness, among the four categories of quality of nursing care in pediatric units, in turn reflecting the fact that inpatient nursing ought to be based on FCC.…”

“…Studies have confirmed that the nurse's experience [14], nurse-parent partnership [8,13,14], attitudes to families' importance in nursing care [3,5,20], and nursing professional self-efficacy [2,26,27] affect the quality of nursing in hospitalized children. Based on the literature review, a hypothetical model of this study was constructed.…”

“…Indeed, the more positive the partnership between nurses and patient children's parents, the higher the satisfaction with nursing service [10] and the quality of nursing care for hospitalized children [13]. Building positive partnerships between pediatric nurses and parents during hospitalization is closely related to the provision of the best FCC for inpatient children [11,14]. Therefore, the effects of the partnership between nurses and parents on the quality of pediatric nursing need to be confirmed.…”

“…Research in pediatric nursing care based on FCC has attempted to develop concepts or guidelines for application to clinical settings [3,11,[19][20][21]. Studies have also analyzed the perceptions of nurses, hospitalized children, and guardians of hospitalized children regarding the quality of pediatric nursing care based on FCC [5,13,14,[22][23][24]. However, few studies have identified the factors that affect, directly and indirectly, the quality of pediatric nursing care to improve the quality of nursing care for hospitalized children.…”