FACTORS INFLUENCING THE USE OF NURSING INTERVENTIONS IN SURGICAL CLINICAL PRACTICE
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | VII. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF GENERAL NURSES AND WORKERS EDUCATING PARAMEDICAL STAFF |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | Nursing Interventions Classification; NIC; Intervention; Surgical nursing |
| Description | Background: The article presents results obtained within the project called IGA MZCR NF112078-4/2011. The first phase of the Project was focused on the choice of NIC interventions which are frequently used in surgical nursing practice. This contribution presents information on whether the respondents` education, the specialization in surgery, their age, the number years after getting the qualification, the length of practical experience and the length of experience at a surgical unit influence the respondents` opinion of the frequency of interventions in the surgical nursing practice. Methods: The investigation used quantitative research methods. Questionnaires were used for collecting the data. The questionnaire contained names and definitions of 101 NIC interventions; the frequency of their use was classified according to the scale: used minimally once a day, minimally once a week, minimally once a month, occasionally - less than once a month, never used, the intervention is not within the competence of a general nurse. General nurses working without professional supervision at standard surgical departments for longer than one year were asked to fill in the questionnaires. The inductive analysis used Pearson`s chi-square and the ANOVA method. Results: 11 health care facilities from all the Czech Republic were included in the investigation. 255 completed questionnaires were processed. Only in 6 (5.9%) out of the 101 tested nursing interventions, a statistically significant dependence between the respondents with a surgical specialization education and respondents without this specialization was noticed. In 9 (8.9%) nursing interventions, the difference in responses was found between nurses with academic education and nurses without academic education. Furthermore, it was found out that the age had significantly influenced the responses with regard to the frequency of the 101 interventions in 21 interventions (20.8%). The number of years after getting the qualification and the length of practical experience influenced the opinions of the frequency of interventions in 17 (16.8%) NIC interventions. In 23 interventions (22.8%), the length of practical experience at a surgical department was an influencing factor. Conclusions: It was found out that none of the factors studied had influenced the use of individual interventions in surgical nursing practice in more than 25% evaluated interventions. The information obtained will be used for the choice of appropriate respondents for the validation of NIC interventions at surgical nursing practice. |
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