Relationship between nursing Role and Discharge Planning of Registered Nurse at Phrae Hospital

Abstract

This descriptive study was to investigation 1) the nursing role at Phrae Hospital 2) the discharge planning of registered nurse at Phrae Hospital 3) the correlation between nursing role and discharge planning of registered nurse of Phrae Hospital. The sample consisted of 179 registered nurses who have worked for more than one year at Phrae Hospital. The sample is selected by a stratified random sampling and simple random sampling technique. The research instrument was divided in to three parts: past 1: general information: past 2:the nursing role based on Masters concept (2009); and past 3:the discharge planning questionnaires. Content validity was established by using the Content Validity Index. Reliability Coefficients were 0.95 and 0.97, respectively. Data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and the Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The finding were as follows 1) practices of nursing role were in the high level. ( = 4.20, SD = 0.39) 2) discharge planning of registered nurse were in the high level. ( = 4.19, SD = 0.44) 3) there was a statistically significant positive correlation at the high level between their nursing role and discharge planning of registered nurse at phrae hospital (r = 0.834, p < .05).