This is the descriptive investigation study in-tended to provide basic informations to develop concrete method of nurse arbitration which can improve the quality of nursing care on patient"s family by investigating and analyzing the perception and practice on family nursing of clinical nurse.
332 nurses working in 4 university hospitals in Seoul have been the object and the collection of data have been conducted by visiting cooperated by the department of nursing in university hospital from April 4th through April 17th 1998.
The measuring instrument of the perception and the practice on family nursing which was written by the researcher was used based on the family nursing arbitration by recently amending Calgary Family Arbitration of the Model of Wright & Leahey.
Cronbach~s u value of this instrument was .9288 in the perception and .9168 in the practice the collected data have been analyzed by frequency. percentage. averaged value, t-test, F-test(ANOVA). Duncan~s Multiple Range. Pearson~s Correlation Coefficient. and the results are as the follows
1. The perception on patients family nursing of clinical nurse showed comparatively high by 3.22 in averageimaximum 3.,~2, minimum 2.82) on the basis of 4 point but the practice showed low by average 2.47imaximum 3.02. minimum 2.11).
By providing the patients and their family with ~fihe information about the health problem of the patient which is the role of giving explanation and information about the disease. the nurse presents the method of their helping patient and in case that the family lack of knowledge about the hE~alth problem and crisis of the patient which is tl-_e role of education about the method of solving the crisis and change. the nurse educates aboutthe necessity and method of taking care of the crisis and the changes. The third question that the relation of recognizing the difficult´ of famil.v and cooperating with them in supporting the patient for mutual function is to be formed showed high in the degree of perception and practice of the necessity.
2. General characteristics of perception about patients family nursing of the object. showed no significant difference except the concerns about the family usually(F=5.472, p(.0011 and general characteristics which showed significant difference in the degree of practice were educational background(F==3.177, p(.05), clinical experience (F= 2.462. p(.05) and position(F=7.029. p(.0011, and attention about patients family(F=10.603, pC.001~.
3. The relation between perception and practice about the nursing on patients family showed pure correlation but the degree was very ]ow(r=.188. p(.05).
The above results showed that the clinical nurses has been high understanding about the necessity of patient´s family nursing but the degree of practice has been very lo~ti~ due to the lack of education abou~;, the family nursing, having no ways of nurse arbitration for practical duty and lack of political administrative support.
Therefore concrete and systematic family situation and arbitration method to be applied clinically are required to be developed and also the education about patient´s family nursing and the development of the course for clinical practice are required and political and administrative support for clinical practice about patients family nursing is required as well.
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