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International Journal of Nursing 

About: International Journal of Nursing is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Health care & Nurse education. It has an ISSN identifier of 2279-0195. Over the lifetime, 1124 publications have been published receiving 3475 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on nurses capacity of delivering services to infected patients with minimal risks and argued about the importance of human factor tools and how they could impact the different challenges and risks that the nurses are going through during the COVID19 Pandemic at various stages.
Abstract: This paper explores the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on nurses capacity of delivering services to infected patients with minimal risks. The role of nursing during the first four months since the outbreak of the COVID-19 is reviewed. The nursing, both preventive service and response preparedness are evaluated along with their human factor in such a crisis are evaluated. Then the researchers argue about the importance of human factor tools and how they could impact the different challenges and risks that the nurses are going through during the COVID-19 pandemic at various stages, till the time of this paper. A specific framework is exploited, and its implications and limitations are discussed. This research makes two main contributions. From a theoretical perspective, it sheds light on how specific dimensions of human factor could help to raise the capacity of the nurses and their availability, therefore their reliability during a dynamic and complex pandemic as COVID-19. From a practical implication, this study could help prepare nurses for the coming pandemics with better overall productivity effectiveness that would lead to less nurses suffering, beside minimisation of risks and most of all deaths. Future research may extend the present study and test the various propositions made, notably through alternative data collection methods.

78 citations

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TL;DR: Findings from this study have established that multiple factors influence mothers’ satisfaction with their care in labour, birth and the lying in period and that dissatisfaction with care leads to non-usage of the hospital in future or using the hospital only as a last resort.
Abstract: This study was conducted to assess the care and satisfaction of expectant mothers during labour, birth and lying-in period in Ghana. Purposive sampling was employed to recruit participants, based on the needs of the study and on predetermined variables. Participants were second or third time mothers, who were admitted in the first stage of labour with a cervical dilatation of not more than 5 cm. They were those who had returned there for their two weeks post natal visits, who had no history of neonatal loss and who had normal vaginal deliveries, excluding forceps deliveries and vacuum extractions. Eight individual interviews were conducted with volunteering respondents within 48 h after delivery. This was followed by two focus group discussions two weeks after delivery. The groups were made up of three and four volunteering respondents. Data were inductively examined using content analysis, the process of first level coding, pattern coding and memoing. The respondents were between the ages of 22 and 37; they had limited educational backgrounds with the exception of two who were graduates from the university and teachers training college, respectively. All participants had two or three previous pregnancies and for at least one of these pregnancies, they have had experiences in the Mampong maternity hospital. The majority (seven) of them gave birth within 2 h of coming to the hospital. Findings from this study have established that: (a) multiple factors influence mothers’ satisfaction with their care in labour, birth and the lying in period; (b) maternal satisfaction during this period is determined mostly by the attitude of care givers; (c) dissatisfaction with care leads to non-usage of the hospital in future or using the hospital only as a last resort. It is recommended that (1) staffs of the hospital have frequent continuing education on communication and interpersonal relationship, (2) The code of ethics of the nursing profession should be strictly enforced, (3) Care givers need to fully understand the expectations that patient have for their care, and provide care that is consistent with those expectations. Key words: Maternal, mothers, satisfaction, care, labour

69 citations

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TL;DR: It is recommended that Government should subsidize maternal health services in order to make it affordable, acceptable and available to women and nurses should encourage women of reproductive age to utilize maternal health by providing a welcoming and supportive attitude at all contacts.
Abstract: Nigeria is on the verge of not meeting the fifth millennium development goals of improving maternal health due to a high maternal mortality rate which is estimated to be 630 women per 100,000 live births and lack of utilization of maternal health care services is a major contributing factor. Hence, the study was designed to explore awareness and barriers to the utilization of maternal health care services among reproductive women (15 to 45 years) in Amassoma community, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The study population consists of women of reproductive age (15 to 45 years). A purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample size of 192. Data were collected using a questionnaire and descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data generated. The study revealed that the majority of the respondents [182 (94.8%)] have heard of maternal health services but only few actually knew the main services rendered at maternal health care services. Regression coefficient showed significant association between educational status and utilization of maternal health care services (MHCS) among the respondents (beta = 0.47, p = 0.000); parity and utilization of MHCS (beta = -0.14, p = 0.016); and age and utilization of MHCS (beta = -0.19, p = 0.001). The major variables associated with barriers to utilization of maternal health services among respondents were poor knowledge of the existing services, previous bad obstetric history; attitude of the health care provider, availability, accessibility and husband's acceptance of the maternal healthcare services. It is recommended that Government should subsidize maternal health services in order to make it affordable, acceptable and available to women. Also nurses should encourage women of reproductive age to utilize maternal health by providing a welcoming and supportive attitude at all contacts. Key words: Awareness, barrier, utilization, maternal health care services, reproductive age, women.

66 citations

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TL;DR: There is a necessity to use approaches that facilitate learning in clinical practice in beyond creating a conducive clinical learning environment, and approaches in order to decrease the gap between the academic and the clinical component of nursing education should be explored.
Abstract: This study examined the lived experiences of student nurses during their clinical practice from the phenomenological point of view of nine student nurses. Student nurses are found to be on the verge of developing the sense of responsibility for the health and well-being of others as having been introduced to the threshold of clinical practice at early adulthood. Leaving the safe and supportive teaching environments of their school, they are placed into clinical environments that are perceived as unfamiliar and complex and that require dealings with diverse human relations. Notably, the group’s experiences in clinical practice provide greater insight to develop an effective clinical teaching strategy in nursing education. Focus group discussions and interviews were the main methods of data gathering. Employment of Colaizzi's strategy in descriptive phenomenology established the data analysis. The participants considered clinical practice to be an essential component of their learning process. The integration of both theory and practice and opportunities for application and laboratory skills enable student nurses to learn effectively, to feel confident with their skills, and to become competent in taking care of patients. Meanwhile, problems and concerns may be addressed better if good interpersonal relations and sustained communication are practiced. Findings suggest that there is a need to rethink about the clinical skills training in the field of nursing. Distinctly, approaches in order to decrease the gap that exists between the academic and the clinical component of nursing education should be explored, clinical instructors on the other hand need to design strategies and new innovative ways for more effective clinical teaching. Finally, there is a necessity to use approaches that facilitate learning in clinical practice in beyond creating a conducive clinical learning environment.

59 citations

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TL;DR: A significant difference of patients' satisfaction and ethnicity is found and the level of patient satisfaction and the contributing factors can assist nurses in improving nursing care is determined.
Abstract: Patient satisfaction has been viewed as a valid outcome measure of a healthcare delivery system. Sat isfaction evaluations reflect the expectations fro m the patients' point of view and co mpare with the realit ies of the care received. Hence, the purpose of this study was to assess patients' satisfaction with nursing care using Pat ient Sat isfaction with Nursing Care Scale (PSNCS) wh ich was developed based on Co x's Interaction Model of Client Health Behavior. A convenience sampling was used in recruiting the sample of this study (n=100) . The findings of this revealed that the patients rated their satisfaction of nursing care as being at moderate level of satisfaction. The majority of the patients were highly satisfied with the affective support showed by nurses which comprise of 'respect', 's mile' and 'caring'. However, the patients were least satisfied with the aspect on 'decisional control' given to them such as 'making own decision towards care' and 'family involvement with care'. There were no significant differences of patients' satisfaction between age, gender and marital status. Interestingly, this study found a significant difference of patients' satisfaction and ethnicity. Hence, determin ing the level of patient satisfaction and the contributing factors can assist nurses in improving nursing care.

48 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202121
2020102
2019153
2018149
2017158
2016127