Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-1 | Issue-03 | 125-131
Original Research Article
Nurses’ Attitude towards Nursing Process at Public Tertiary Care Hospital Lahore
Shazia Niaz, Afsar Ali, Ms. Roma Bhatti
Published : July 30, 2018
Abstract
Nursing Process is a process used to prevent, identify and treat potential or
actual health problems & promote wellness (Carlson, 2010). Regardless of nurse
knowledge on nursing process, certain features limit the capability of nurses to
implement it in their practice, including lesser time, patient volume high, patient
turnover. To assess the Nurses‟ attitude towards the nursing process in a public
tertiary care hospital Lahore. Cross-sectional descriptive design was used to evaluate
the attitude of nurses towards nursing process among clinical nurses working in
Mayo Hospital. Sample size was selected by convenient selection and a sample
n=150 staff nurses from medical, surgical and emergency ward were selected. A
well-structured questionnaire with closed ended Likert scale is adopted from the
previous studies. “Nurses‟ Attitude to Nursing Process” Prideaux, 1991. This
questionnaire was distributed among clinical nurses of medical, surgical and
emergency ward in Mayo hospital. Data was analyzed through SPSS version 21 is
statistical computer software for data analysis. The findings reveals that majority of
the participants 78.76% were having negative attitude towards the nursing process,
having attitude score of 75% or above while 21.33% of the participants had positive
attitude towards the nursing process and got attitude score of above 75% score.
Overall the attitude of nurses was not positive and majority had negative attitude,
which need special attention.