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Devi, Ashalata W.
- A Study to assess the Knowledge and Attitude of Nursing Students Towards Nursing Profession among the Students of Manipal College of Medical Sciences (Nursing Programme) Pokhara, Kaski District, Nepal
Authors
1 Manipal College of Medical Sciences (Nursing Programme), Kathmandu University, Pokhara, NP
Source
International Journal of Nursing Care, Vol 1, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 10-15Abstract
Objectives: To assess the knowledge of nursing students towards nursing profession, to assess the attitude of nursing students towards nursing profession, to find the association between the knowledge and the selected variables, to find the relationship between the knowledge and attitude on nursing profession.
Materials and Methods: A survey conducted among 183 nursing students of Manipal College of Medical Sciences (Nursing Programme), Pokhara, Kaski District, Nepal.
Results: Regarding knowledge about nursing profession, 91.8% of the nursing students had fair knowledge towards nursing profession.
Regarding attitude towards nursing profession, out of 183 students, 98.4% of the student showed positive attitude towards the statements on the scope of nursing is very broad and highly demanded, 81.4% on a nurse is a professional liaison between the physician and the patient, 77.6% on nurses work with high technology, 74.9% on nurses are capable of independent practice, 96.1% on the service given by nurses is as important as that given by physicians, 84.7% on nurses with advanced degrees make important contributions to patient care, 86.9% on nurses feel good about what they do, 98.36% on a healthy nurse will be able to organize her work properly and confidently, 99.4% on a nurse must have a friendly and helpful nature and behaviour towards patient, 99.4% on a nurse should be able to cope with any kind of difficult situation, 71% on there is no clear cut written policy for nursing profession in most of the nursing institutions and hospitals, 56.8% on media concealed the role of nurse to the public, 90.7% on the public does not know the different cadres of nurses with different qualifications, 66.1% on nurses have limited voices with administrators, and 57.3% on nurses receive little respect from other health care providers and society.
Out of 183 students, 92.9% had negative attitude towards the statements on anyone can be a nurse easily, 75.9% on nurses follow the physician's orders without any questions, 55.7% on nurses make decisions for themselves, 97.3% on nurses' work is just giving injection and care to patient, and 68.3% showed negative attitude on career ladder of nursing profession is limited.
There was no significant association between the knowledge score and selected variables like age, educational qualification, professional qualification, type of family, residence, occupation of father and occupation of mother.
There was significant relationship between the knowledge and attitude (p = 0.01)
Conclusion: The study was conducted aiming to find out the levels of knowledge, and attitude of the nursing students towards nursing profession. The study findings revealed that majority 91.8% of the nursing students were having fair knowledge towards nursing profession while 2.2% of the students had poor knowledge.
Majority 96.2% of the students had good attitude towards nursing profession and none of the students were with poor attitude.
There was no significant association between the knowledge score and selected variables but there was significant relationship between the knowledge and attitude (p=0.01).
Keywords
Nursing, Profession, Knowledge, AttitudeReferences
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Authors
1 Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Univrsity, Manipal, Karnataka 576104, IN
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International Journal of Nursing Education, Vol 3, No 1 (2011), Pagination: 8-10Abstract
Hypertension is the commonest disorder of cardiovascular system, posing a major public health challenge to the population in socio-economic and epidemiological transition. It is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular mortality, which accounts for 20-50 per cent of all deaths.Hypertension is the commonest disorder of cardiovascular system, posing a major public health challenge to the population in socio-economic and epidemiological transition. It is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular mortality, which accounts for 20-50 per cent of all deaths.Keywords
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- A Survey to Assess the Knowledge, Practice, and Attitude on Acute Respiratory Infection among Mothers of under Five Children at Mch Clinic, Ramghat, Pokhara, Nepal
Authors
1 Manipal College of Medical Sciences (Nursing Programme), Kathmandu University, IN
2 MCOMS (Nursing Programme), IN
Source
International Journal of Nursing Education, Vol 4, No 1 (2012), Pagination: 8-11Abstract
Acute respiratory infection is the most common and frequent illnesses experienced globally. It is found that about two million deaths cases are recorded each year. Number of death cases by this disease is highest in the developing countries. Various environmental and host factors are associated with the morbidity and mortality rate due to ARI. The environmental factors are overcrowding, large family, high population density, poor housing condition, poor socioeconomic status, parental smoking and environmental pollution etc. The host factors are avoidance of exclusive breast feeding, poor nutrition and absence of immunization against specific respiratory illness such as measles, whooping cough, and diphtheria.Keywords
Mother, Knowledge, Practice, Attitude, Ari.References
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