Registered Nurse’s Competency in Caring for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Keywords:
competency, professional nurse, Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
The purpose of this descriptive research was to study (1) the level of nursing competency on nursing care for emerging infectious disease patients among professional nurses and (2) the correlation between personal factors and nursing competencies on emerging infectious diseases patients of professional nurses. The population was covered the 102 registered nurses working in emerging infectious disease wards, Pathum Thani Hospital Research tool was a questionnaire consisted of (1) personal information (2) the competency assessment scale applying Sungkaew, Haniratsai Srisathitnaragul of 7 competencies scales including (1) Screening (2) infection prevention, control and surveillance infection (3) Nnursing care of patients and families (4) Emotional maturity (5) Professional ethics (6) Communication, coordination and management and (7) self- directed learning. The questionnaire was qualitatively approved by 3 experts, the Content Validity Index--CVI was 0.98. after being experimentally used with a group of 30 professional nurses whereas the reliability was analyzed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.97. The data were analyzed by the software program for frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation coefficient variance. The results were as follows: The overall nursing competency of emerging infectious disease patients was at level 4. When analyzing each aspect, it was found that all aspects had a mean level of 4 except the aspect of for professional ethics was at level 5. Age, experience of working in Pathum Thani Hospital and experience of training on emerging infectious disease were related with nursing competency of emerging infectious disease patients with statistical significance at .05 level (r=.293, .283 and .191 respectively). Suggestions: On the job training should be provided to all registered nurses thoroughly as well as there should have be training to refresh new knowledge continuously with concerning an account the age and working experience.
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