Aktar Shoaib, Pandey Vandna, Kumar Ashok
Nursing Officer, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
College of Nursing, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
J Educ Health Promot. 2023 Apr 28;12:125. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1181_22. eCollection 2023.
Nurses are internationally recognized to be largest group of registered and regulated practitioner in the health workforce of any country. There is an increase in number of critically ill patients seeking optimal care, and this rapidly increases the demand for the critical care nurses at the end of life. Caring for a critically ill patient creates anxiety and emotional exhaustion and may sometimes lead to burnout. So, it is imperative for the nurses to have an optimistic approach while caring patients in the ICU. The aim of the study was to assess the attitude of the nurses caring critically ill patients and to determine the association of the level of attitude with the selected personal variable. The study was conducted at ICUs of tertiary care hospital by using descriptive research design.
A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in ICUs of tertiary care hospital from October to December 2018. The sample was selected by total enumeration technique. Data was collected from 60 critical care nurses with the help of self-structured five-point Likert scale to assess the attitude of nurses. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used for data analysis such as mean, frequency, percentage, standard deviation, and Chi-square test.
Majority (81.7%) of the nurses were having favorable attitude toward caring the critically ill patients, and there was no significant association of the attitude score with the selected personal variable at < 0.05.
Majority of critical care nurses have favorable attitude. If they have supportive environment at workplace, their willingness to work toward quality care will improve further.
在任何国家的卫生人力队伍中，护士都是国际公认的最大的注册和受监管从业者群体。寻求最佳护理的重症患者数量在增加，这迅速增加了临终时对重症护理护士的需求。护理重症患者会引发焦虑和情感疲惫，有时还可能导致职业倦怠。因此，护士在重症监护病房护理患者时必须保持乐观的态度。本研究的目的是评估护理重症患者的护士的态度，并确定态度水平与所选个人变量之间的关联。该研究在一家三级护理医院的重症监护病房采用描述性研究设计进行。
2018年10月至12月在一家三级护理医院的重症监护病房进行了一项横断面描述性研究。样本采用全面枚举技术选取。借助自行编制的五点李克特量表从60名重症护理护士那里收集数据，以评估护士的态度。数据分析采用描述性统计和推断性统计，如均值、频率、百分比、标准差和卡方检验。
大多数（81.7%）护士对护理重症患者持积极态度，在α<0.05时，态度得分与所选个人变量之间无显著关联。
大多数重症护理护士态度积极。如果他们在工作场所拥有支持性环境，他们为提供优质护理而努力工作的意愿将进一步提高。
