Nurses' attitudes towards the nursing process

Bowman, Gerald S.; Thompson, David R.; Sutton, Terence W.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1983.tb00302.x

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“…In Ethiopia, quality of health care was poor [7] and to improve the quality of health service, application of nursing process may contribute a lot.…”

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Application of Nursing Process and Its Affecting Factors among Nurses Working in Mekelle Zone Hospitals, Northern Ethiopia

Hagos

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Balcha

et al. 2014

Nursing Research and Practice

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Background. Nursing process is considered as appropriate method to explain the nursing essence, its scientific bases, technologies and humanist assumptions that encourage critical thinking and creativity, and permits solving problems in professional practice. Objective. To assess the application of nursing process and it's affecting factors in Mekelle Zone Hospitals. Methods. A cross sectional design employing quantitative and qualitative methods was conducted in Mekelle zone hospitals March 2011. Qualitative data was collected from14 head nurses of six hospitals and quantitative was collected from 200 nurses selected by simple random sampling technique from the six hospitals proportional to their size. SPSS version 16.1 and thematic analysis was used for quantitative and qualitative data respectively. Results. Majority 180 (90%) of the respondents have poor knowledge and 99.5% of the respondents have a positive attitude towards the nursing process. All of the respondents said that they did not use the nursing process during provision of care to their patients at the time of the study. Majority (75%) of the respondent said that the nurse to patient ratio was not optimal to apply the nursing process. Conclusion and Recommendation. The nursing process is not yet applied in all of the six hospitals. The finding revealed that the knowledge of nurses on the nursing process is not adequate to put it in to practice and high patient nurse ratio affects its application. The studied hospitals should consider the application of the nursing process critically by motivating nurses and monitor and evaluate its progress.

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“…In Ethiopia, quality of health care was poor [7] and to improve the quality of health service, application of nursing process may contribute a lot.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of Nursing Process and Its Affecting Factors among Nurses Working in Mekelle Zone Hospitals, Northern Ethiopia

Hagos

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Balcha

et al. 2014

Nursing Research and Practice

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“…There has been a tendency to over‐state nurses’ distinctive caring role and this has led to accusations from other professions that nurses are seemingly claiming a monopoly on caring ( Henderson 1982). Furthermore, studies on both sides of the Atlantic reveal that its impact on nursing practice has been largely disappointing ( de la Cuesta 1983, Buckenham & McGrath 1983, Bowman et al . 1983 , Melia 1987, Dingwall et al .…”

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Record‐keeping and routine nursing practice: the view from the wards

Allen

1998

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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This paper examines general nurses' views of the nursing record and its routine usage in contemporary hospital practice. It draws on ethnographic data generated on a surgical ward and a medical ward in a single District General Hospital in the United Kingdom (UK). A key research finding was ward nurses' equivocal attitudes to the nursing record. On the one hand, because of its links with the nursing process, the nursing record was highly valued as a symbol of professionalism and ward staff were loathe to criticise it directly. On the other hand, however, the nurses in this study clearly found it difficult to reconcile their professional ideals with the ways in which the nursing record was routinely employed on the wards. In this paper it is suggested that at one level, nurses' ambivalence towards the nursing record reflected the distortion of its founding philosophy by the new managerialism in the contemporary UK health care context. At another level, however, there are also difficulties which arise from the tension between the assumptions about the nature of nursing work which underpin the nursing record and the workplace reality on hospital wards.

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“…Challenges to implementing NP are raised on (a) shortage of resources -i.e., manpower, supplies, inadequate time and high patient turnover [7,71]; (b) negative attitude -i.e., time consuming and being foreign [9,72]; and (c) inadequate knowledge and incompetence -i.e., lack of cognitive and psychomotor skills, and structure and language are complicated, cumbersome and unrealistic [8,73]. This project now adds systemic challenges such as (d) management and policy issuesi.e., lack of nurses' autonomy and lack of support from authorities; and (e) organisation culture -i.e., negative influence from medical model; to the already existing list of impediments to NP.…”

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confidence: 99%