2.1 Attitudes of Doctors and Nurses Academic excellence alone does not make one a good doctor or a nurse. To be a good health personnel one must have a right attitude, character, commitment, aptitude and above all a heart of service. In the handbook to access HIV/AIDS –related treatment, it was documented that to be an ideal treatment service provider there is a need to have a balance among knowledge, skills and attitudes (Figure 1) 24. There is no doubt that the Ghanaian doctor is well trained but
Thisissignificant because in nursing, communication is vital. All the members of the health care team (doctors, nurses, psychiatrist, physical therapist, dietician, etc.) even the patient should collaborate and communicate with each other so that they will come up with a holistic approach in managing the patient’s health to ensure patient safety. Understanding or discovering more about the negatives attitudes of a nurse (e.g.facialexpression:frowning
in nursing. Nursing research is research that provides evidence used to support nursing practices. Nursing as an evidence – based area of practice has been developing since the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day, where many nurses now work as researchers based in universities as well as in the health care setting (Ireland, 2013). Nurse education places emphasis upon the use of evidence from research in order to rationalize
Statement of the Problem The study determined the competence and attitude of the nursing students in information and communications technology, Aklan State University. Findings served as bases for a proposed enhancement plan. Specifically, it answered the following problems: 1. What was the competence of the nursing students in performing tasks associated with information and communications technology in terms of: 1.1. Technology Operations and Concepts; 1.2. Office and Productivity Tools; 1.3
University of Maryland School of Nursing, individuals learning nursing informatics become responsible for the combination of nursing science, computer science and information science. They help bring system information, nursing knowledge and data into the nursing field. A nurse working in nursing informatics is responsible for translating the needs of patients and staff into computer programs, so that the technical support can understand and enhance the productivity of nursing care (Marten, 2013). The
LITERATURE REVIEW The scope of nursing involves caring effectively for all patients from all areas of the developmental stage. As the nursing class of 2015 ventured into gerontology nursing, the first question the facilitators asked was, “How do you feel about older persons?” The responses that were given by the students were: they are too talkative, need too much monitoring, odor is very unpleasant and they are too stubborn. “Learning is a process in with an individual achieves behavioral maturation
surveyed 32 different tertiary hospitals to find out the relationship of healthcare professionals and physical environment to the total patient satisfaction and the study showed that they were all positively related to overall satisfaction; however, nursing care was the most important to raise overall patient satisfaction. The authors also found that the courtesy and respect of healthcare providers had a primary impact or more influence on patient satisfaction while communication and explanation are
impediments faced by the mentally ill and; it is the shame and fear of this discrimination that prevents the mentally-ill from seeking help and care for their disorders (World Health Organization, 2001). It is essential to understand about people’s attitude and response towards mentally ill
education course can shape nurses’ attitude toward caring of dying patients so as to reduce anxiety about death and consequently have a positive influence on nurses’ attitude towards caring of dying (Wass, 2004; Abu Hasheesh, AI- Sayed AboZeid, Goda EI-Zaid& Alhujaili, 2014; Adesina, DeBellis & Zannettino,2014; Wessel & Rutledge, 2005). However, somehow, there is still limitation of end of life care education to the newly graduated nurse in delivering end of life care. Nursing students and newly graduated
should focus more on the demands on quality and safety. The beginning of Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) was created to integrate quality and safety competencies in nursing education. For this reason, nursing schools should reinforce and focus on the competencies of QSEN, within the curricula of the baccalaureate programs. Therefore, the researcher will study the perception of nursing students in the final year of the baccalaureate program about the six QSEN competencies. The research