Assessment of procrastination in providing nursing care among Iranian nursing staff

Abstract

Aim This study aimed to investigate procrastination in nursing care providing. Design This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 125 nurses in ICUs, PICUs, NICUs, and surgery wards, who were selected by census sampling in Iran. Methods The data were collected using the Procrastination Scale, which consisted of 25 items relating to 3 factors. Data were analyzed using statistics, Chi-square, Friedman test, analysis of variance, and Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests. Results Overall, 37% of the participants showed very high or high procrastination. Most of the procrastination was observed in the “Task aversion” (44.2%). ANOVA indicated that the mean total procrastination score had a significant relationship with age (p = 0.013), work experience (p = 0.006), and marital status (p = 0.02). Nurses with permanent employment (p = 0.014) and lower education (p = 0.009) and women (p = 0.023) were much more likely to procrastinate the provision of care. Conclusion It is recommended to adopt appropriate management strategies and take adequate measures to reduce procrastination, considering the existence of procrastination among nurses and its adverse impact on the quality of care.

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Effect of cellphone interactive games on venipuncture pain among Ill hospitalized Egyptian toddlers and preschoolers

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“…Because of that most of the researches that examine new non-pharmacological pain management practices are made by nurses to help their pediatric patients to cope with pain in a better way and to reduce both the destructive effect of pain as well as the need to pharmacological pain killers and their systemic effect on body organs [12] . The effective management of pain is, after all, a fundamental human right and one of the pediatric nurses responsibility is to provide pain free nursing care for children [7,13,14] . Distraction is a simple technique which does not require any specific training and can be implemented by nurses, parents or other health care personal besides, it has a minimal cost and implies no risks for the child [9] .…”

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