4^th International Conference on Future Nursing, Digital Health, and Patient Care August 10-11, 2020 Stockholm, Sweden

Biography:

Dr. Ayala Gonen is a senior lecturer at Ruppin Academic Center in Israel. Her main fields of interest are understanding the behavior of nursing students, nurses and educators, cultural diversity,  and researching personal and organizational behavior concerning using information technology.

Abstract:

Background: These days, when life expectancy rises, together with the tremendous advanced in technology, it is very important to study the factors leading students to choose or avoid the nursing profession. This issue is especially important for the future of the nursing profession, when  there is a critical need to increase the number of nurses.

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of self - efficacy on the perception of the nursing profession among high school students in Israel. Therefore, the research hypotheses are referring to differences in nursing perceptions concerning the variables: Students' level of self-efficacy; Sector (Jews vs. Muslims); Gender, and family affiliation with nursing practitioners. The theoretical background of the study was the theory of Ajzen' theory of planned behavior (1991).

The research method was a quantitative research, with the use of a questionnaire. The questionnaire examined the perception of nursing profession among 149 high school students, from the Jewish and Arab sectors in Israel. The questionnaire included various aspects of the profession's perception like perception of image. Anonymous of the respondents was kept and two scales were used: Perception of the nursing profession, and self-efficacy. Out of 200 questionnaires distributed, 149 were fully answered (74.5%).

Results: High school students with high levels of self-efficacy were found to have low perceptions of the nursing profession, compared to students with low self-efficacy who were found to have high perceptions of the nursing profession. (R= -0.218, sig<0.05) .There were no differences between the perception of the nursing profession the two sectors and in the gender of the student.

Discussion: Self-efficacy has effect on the profession choice, and in fact, a low sense of self-efficacy causes second thoughts about the individual's self-ability and causes the individual to develop lower and less committed aspirations . In addition, when young students have low perceptions of the profession, they perceive it as low-status and with low intellectual requirements. Therefore, students who perceive the nursing profession as low-status have been found to have low self-efficacy and prefer to choose a profession of this type.

In summary: The low perception of the nature of the nursing profession proves that there is an urgent need to improve the profession's image and to promote its concept as a challenging and worthy profession. Awareness needs to be raised about the skills required for the profession like empowering the level of self-efficacy and building new paths for career development in nursing.

Biography:

Srijana is 26 years old and doing Masters of Nursing Student Chitwan Medical College; Chitwan (Tribhuwan university), Nepal.

Abstract:

Woman’s positive or negative memories of childbearing experiences during facility-based maternity care stay with her throughout lifetime affecting the future utilization of maternity services. A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among 170 women to find out the women’s experiences on received maternity care during childbirth. Data were collected by face to face interview method using semi-structured interview schedule and record review guide during October to November, 2016. Of all women, 71.8% aged 20-29 years, 41.2% disadvantaged janajatis. 84.7% Hindu 90.0% literate and 22.4% employed. Further, 86.5% had >1 birth, 43.5% made ≥ 4 ANC visits, 57.0% delivered at day, 14.1%  experienced complications and  77.6% stayed for ≥ 1 day in hospital. Regarding women’s experience, 92.9% experienced equitable care, 70.6% were free from physical abuse, 62.9% experienced dignified care, 61.2% experienced timely care, 7.6% experienced confidential care and none of women experienced consented care. Cent percent (100.0%) women experienced disrespectful care. Significant association between equitable care and age (0.004), dignified care and number of childbirth (p=0.003) and ANC visits (p=0.010), timely care (p= 0.020) and ANC visit (p= 0.020) and report of complication (p= 0.016), free from physical abuse and number of childbirth. All of the women experienced disrespectful care during hospital based childbirth which is critical in developing interventions at community, health facility and national levels to address the factors that influence D & A in facilities to encourage future facility utilization.

Keywords:  Abusive Care, Childbirth, Discrimination

Biography:

Jane Koech is current student pursuing  PhD at the age of 42  years from Kenya. She has done Masters of Science in Nursing education  from Kenya methodist University.   She  is the program manager of Ministry of Health Kenya. 

Abstract:

Kenya healthcare policies provide that patient’s dignity be observed by ensuring medical safety practices are observed. In this case, medication errors are a concern for both healthcare professionals as well as patients. The main aim of this study was to evaluate factors contributing to medication safety practices among nurses working at Mbagathi District Hospital. To achieve this objective, the study investigated types of medication errors committed by nurses, established actual factors contributing to occurrence of medication errors, among nurses and finally established the barriers to reporting of medication errors among nurses working at Mbagathi District Hospital. The study adopted descriptive design study where data was collected from 121 nurses working in medical, surgical, paediatric, maternity and outpatients using structured self-administered questionnaires after a pilot study showed validity and reliability of the research instrument. Basically, to ensure that the sample was representative, respondents were stratified in to 6 strata to ensure all departments are represented and simple random was used to select the wards and participants. The data collected was cleaned and analysis was done using scientific package for social scientist (SPSS) version 20. Descriptive statistics such as means, standard deviations and frequency distribution were used to analyse the data while inferential statistics such as Chi-Square, Person Correlation, ANOVA and Regression analysis were used to tests relationships between independent variables and dependent variables. The results indicated that there exist a statistically significant positive relationship between errors made during drug administration and such errors occurred as a result of environmental factors human factors, system factors and failure to reporting previous errors. Result indicated an error rate per as 6.2. Meaning for every six patients seeking health care one patient suffers a medication error. Nurses perceive that most important barriers of reporting medication errors were fear of punishment, fear of being reprimand and fear of lawsuit. There was complacency in ensuring medication safety practices are adhered, this was further contributed by human, environmental and system factors. There was gap between medication made by nurses and reporting of those medication errors, hence the need by hospital management to put in place measures to promote medication safety practices among nurses. The study concludes that medical safety practices are not well adhered at Mbagathi District  hospital and thus hospital management need to deal with all barriers that limit error reporting through creating proper communication channel for relaying information.