Predictors of rural critical care nurses’ willingness to care for people with AIDS

O'Sullivan, Sandra; Preston, Deborah Bray; Forti, Esther M.

doi:10.1054/iccn.2000.6181

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“…Researches indicated that nursing students are frightened of AIDS patients and often unwilling to care for them (Petro-Nustas, Kulwicki, & Zumout, 2002). Nursing attitudes toward HIV/AIDS patients will heavily influence their willingness to learn about and provide health care for this population (Lohrmann, Valimaki, Suominen, Muinonen, & Dassan, 2000;O'Sullivan, Preston, & Forti, 2000). Unwakwe (2000) reported that students with sufficient education and more knowledge about HIV/AIDS had more positive attitudes and were more willing to provide care for HIV/AIDS patients.…”

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RETRACTED: Attitudes of Saudi Nursing Students on AIDS and Predictors of Willingness to Provide Care for Patients in Central Saudi Arabia

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This study aimed to assess acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related knowledge, attitudes, and risk perception among Saudi nursing students, and to identify predictors of their willingness to provide care for patients with AIDS. A crosssectional study of 260 baccalaureate nursing students at King Saud bin-Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was done using a previously validated instrument. Students' knowledge percentage mean score (PMS) on AIDS was 72.93 ± 10.67 reflecting an average level of knowledge. There were many misconceptions about how AIDS is transmitted, for example, use of same toilets and bathrooms and washing clothes together (24.9%), swimming (53.7%), and coughing and sneezing (49.6%). Nursing students reported an overall negative attitude toward AIDS, with a PMS of 43.48 ± 9.21. The majority of students agreed that AIDS patients should be isolated from other patients (83%), and should not share the room with other noninfected patients (81.8%), and some reported that people living with AIDS deserve what has happened to them (24.7%). After controlling for confounders, students' poor knowledge and negative attitude were associated only with having never been given nursing education as their primary university education "Stream 2 students" (p = .012 and p = .01, respectively). These findings have implications for development of teaching strategies and curricular approaches for nursing to address this health care issue.

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“…Research suggests that nurses prepared to care for PWAs will be more likely to be willing to care for PWAs and have less fear of providing care (O'Sullivan et al, 2000). Research also suggests that when nurses are provided experiences of caring for PWAs their fear of caregiving decreases and attitudes toward caring for PWAs improves (Webb, Bower, & Gill, 1997).…”

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“…Other information comes from survey data collected in the 1980s and 1990s using instruments designed to measure willingness to provide care for PWAs, attitudes about PWAs, the use of personal protective equipment, and homophobia (Koch, Preston, Young, & Wang, 1991;O'Sullivan, Preston, & Forti, 2000;Preston, Forti, Kassab, & Koch, 2000). A recent review of health care literature revealed that research literature lacks studies reporting actual caregiving experiences of rural nurses who provide nursing care for PWAs.…”

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How Caring for Persons with HIV/AIDS Affects Rural Nurses

Mullins

2009

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Prior research findings about caregiving for persons with HIV/AIDS indicate that caregiving impacts nurses in three separate domains: personal self as a nurse in practice; interactions with the nurse's family members, friends, and colleagues; and interactions with persons with HIV/AIDS. However the impact caregiving for persons with HIV/AIDS has on rural nurses has not been extensively explored. A qualitative study of rural registered nurses' experiences of caring for persons with HIV/AIDS was conducted to determine how caregiving affects registered nurses in rural areas. Content analysis was used to analyze rural registered nurses' written comments about their experiences of caring for persons with HIV/AIDS. Themes identified from the nurses' accounts of instances of caregiving were the perceived risk of acquiring the virus, a lack of concern about HIV/AIDS, and a need for ongoing continued education about the care of persons with HIV/AIDS.

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“…Nurses' willingness to provide care to PWA was found to be associated with post basic education, 22 and those with graduate training showed better attitude, low avoidance, and were more empathetic and more effective in providing care to PWA, than those without graduate training 23–24 . Factors that influence nurses' willingness to provide care or perform procedures include feelings of not being prepared, anxiety and fears of cross‐infection 7,24 . No correlation was found between comfort level and knowledge in caring for high‐risk specialized care patients with tracheostomies 25 .…”

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AIDS care in Nigeria: Are nurses comfortable performing procedures?

Oyeyemi

Bello

2008

Int J of Nursing Practice

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Nurses' feeling of comfort during care is important to stay on the job and for their choice of specialty of care. This study aimed to assess nurses' level of comfort in providing care to patients living with AIDS and to determine the sociodemographic variables that influence nurses' comfort. Nurses in four hospitals in Nigeria (n = 277) were surveyed using a questionnaire that elicited information on their demographic characteristics, previous AIDS encounter, and their comfort taking vital signs, casually handling, administering enema and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and in recommending exercise and physical therapy to patients living with AIDS. Nigerian nurses were uncomfortable with resuscitation and also showed discomfort not wearing gloves while handling these patients. Being single and male gender influenced nurses' comfort with vital signs and enema administration. Special orientation to include analysis of common tasks and procedures for new nurses assigned to AIDS units is suggested.

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Predictors of rural critical care nurses’ willingness to care for people with AIDS

Cited by 23 publications

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RETRACTED: Attitudes of Saudi Nursing Students on AIDS and Predictors of Willingness to Provide Care for Patients in Central Saudi Arabia

RETRACTED: Attitudes of Saudi Nursing Students on AIDS and Predictors of Willingness to Provide Care for Patients in Central Saudi Arabia

How Caring for Persons with HIV/AIDS Affects Rural Nurses

AIDS care in Nigeria: Are nurses comfortable performing procedures?

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