The Magnitude of Perceived Professionalism and Its Associated Factors Among Nurses in Public Referral Hospitals of West Amhara, Ethiopia

Abate, Hailemichael Kindie; Abate, Addisu Taye; Tezera, Zewdu Baye; Beshah, Debrewok Tesgera; Agegnehu, Chilot Desta; Getnet, Mehammed Adem; Yazew, Kassahun Gebeyehu; Alemu, Mahlet Temesgen; Mekonenn, Chilot Kassa; Kassahun, Chanyalew Worku

doi:10.2147/nrr.s328749

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“…Nursing professionalism is a global concern, with variations observed across different countries and healthcare systems. The findings of our study revealed that more than half of the nurses had high professionalism, which was in line with the findings of various studies conducted in Ethiopia [ 6 , 21 ]. This high level of professionalism in our study participants can be attributed to younger age, adequate staffing ratio, resource availability, job security, and support for professional development opportunities in our institute, which could impact nurses’ motivation, job satisfaction, and, consequently professionalism [ 22 ].…”

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confidence: 92%

Factors Associated with Nursing Professionalism: Insights from Tertiary Care Center in India

Kumari,

Tiwari,

Vasu

et al. 2024

BMC Nurs

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Background Professionalism among nurses plays a critical role in ensuring patient safety and quality care and involves delivering competent, safe, and ethical care while also working with clients, families, communities, and healthcare teams. Aims and objectives To assess the level of nursing professionalism and the factors affecting professionalism among nurses working at a tertiary care center in India. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2022 to March 2023 using a total enumeration sampling technique. Following institutional ethics committee approval, standardized tools were administered consisting of Nursing Professionalism Scale and socio-demographic, personal, and organizational characteristics. Results A total of 270 nurses participated, with a response rate of 93.7%. The mean age of the participants was 27.33 ± 2.75 years, with the majority being female (82.6%) and belonged to the age group of 23–27 years (59.6%). More than half of the nurses exhibited high professionalism (53%), with the highest and lowest median scores for professional responsibility (29.0) and valuing human beings (13.0) respectively. Multivariate regression analysis demonstrated that, compared with their counterparts, nurses with a graduate nursing qualification (AOR = 4.77, 95% CI = 1.16–19.68), up-to-date training (AOR = 4.13, 95% CI = 1.88–9.06), and adequate career opportunity (AOR = 33.91, 95% CI = 14.48–79.39) had significant associations with high nursing professionalism. Conclusion/Implications for practice The majority of the nurses had high professionalism, particularly in the domains of professional responsibility and management. Hospitals and healthcare institutions can use these findings to develop policies and prioritize opportunities for nurses to attend conferences and workshops to enhance their professional values, ultimately leading to improved patient care outcomes. Patient and public contribution No patient or public contribution.

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Factors Associated with Nursing Professionalism: Insights from Tertiary Care Center in India

Kumari,

Tiwari,

Vasu

et al. 2024

BMC Nurs

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“…This could be as a result of head nurses being aware of their accountability as nurses within the nursing profession, respecting the integrity and human rights of patients and their families, keeping records of their nursing to do their duties clear, offering patients and their families support according to their physical as well as psychological wants at the time, having the necessary capabilities to counsel and teach other nurses, and forging relations where ideas can be shared with other professional. This was in the similar line with Abate, et al (2021) who stated that head nurses gave elevated score of overall professionalism, supporting the notion that head nurses who worth professionalism showed adherence to best practices in addition to training skills.…”

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Head Nurses' Professionalism, Systems Thinking and its Relation to Safe Nursing Care

Ahmed

Ibrahim

2023

Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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Background: Professionalism and systems thinking play an important role in any health care institution as they shape and affect the nature of head nurses' knowledge, behaviors, skills and attitudes that contribute to deliver safe nursing care within the rapidly altering work environment. Aim: The present study aims to investigate head nurses' professionalism, systems thinking and its relation to safe nursing care at Oncology Center. Design: A descriptive correlational design. Setting: All Oncology Center's inpatient units. Subjects: 110 head nurses for study sample. Tools: Data were collected by the use of nurses' professionalism inventory, systems thinking scale, and safe nursing care questionnaire. Results: The highest percent of head nurses showed high level of professionalism, systems thinking and safe nursing care (53.6%, 43.6%, and 55.5%) respectively. There was highly statistically significant positive correlation between safe nursing care with both head nurses' professionalism and systems thinking. Conclusion:There was highly statistically significant positive correlation between safe nursing care with both head nurses' professionalism and systems thinking. Recommendations:Provide safe environment that enhances head nurses' professionalism and systems thinking to enhance safe nursing care. Developing of training programs to increase head nurses' knowledge and skills related to systems thinking. Meeting regularly with head nurses in order to listen to them as well as foster their responsibility and accountability to provide safe nursing care.

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“…In addition, detailed feedback was provided to the data collectors. The collected data were coded per operational definitions of the study variables and cheek-rechecked by the principal investigators for its completeness [26].…”

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Working environment of nurses in public referral hospitals of West Amhara, Ethiopia, 2021

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Background Healthy working environment for nurses is a foundation for promoting patients’ and nurses’ safety in hospitals. However, in Ethiopia, there is scarcity of data on this issue. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the working environment of nurses in Public Referral Hospitals in Public Referral Hospitals of West Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia, 2021. Methods An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among 423 nurses from January to February 2021. Systematic random sampling was used to select nurses from each hospital. Structured, self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data. EPI- DATA and SPSS were used for data entry and analysis respectively. Frequency, percentages, and means were calculated. Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index tool was used to measure the outcome variable. Binary and multivariable logistic regression analyses were computed to identify associated factors. Finally, texts, tables and graphs were used to report findings. Results The response rate for the study was 96.2%. Around 210 (51.6%) of the study participants were male. One hundred eighty eight (46.2%) nurses reported that their working environment was healthy, while 219 (53.8%,) reported it as not healthy. Nurses who were working in pediatrics wards (AOR = 0.13, 0.02, 0.1) and nurses who gave care for 7–12 patients per day (AOR = 0.21, 0.05, 0.98) were less likely to have a healthy working environment, respectively. Nurses who reported the Ministry of Health to give focus to the nursing profession were 73% more likely to have a healthy work environment (AOR = 0.27; 0.09, .82). Conclusion and recommendations. More than half of nurses reported that their working environment was not healthy to appropriate practice. Hence, introducing systems to improve participation of nurses in hospital affairs and patient care is essential. It is also important to give attention to nurses who are working at pediatrics wards, and for nurses who give care more than the standards.

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The Magnitude of Perceived Professionalism and Its Associated Factors Among Nurses in Public Referral Hospitals of West Amhara, Ethiopia

Cited by 5 publications

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Factors Associated with Nursing Professionalism: Insights from Tertiary Care Center in India

Factors Associated with Nursing Professionalism: Insights from Tertiary Care Center in India

Head Nurses' Professionalism, Systems Thinking and its Relation to Safe Nursing Care

Working environment of nurses in public referral hospitals of West Amhara, Ethiopia, 2021

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