Competency of Professional Nurses in Nursing Care of Patients with Covid-19 Infection in Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute
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In the situation of the epidemic of COVID-19, a nurse's very important role is to provide care to difficult and complex critical care patients. Therefore, nurses’ professional competencies in nursing patients infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 need to be developed in accordance with the epidemic context.
Descriptive research aimed to study the survey components of professional nurses’ competency in nursing with coronavirus disease 2019, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute. The sample group is 120 registered nurses who work directly with coronavirus cases in 2019 at Bamrasnaradura Institute. Conducted research from September 2021 to October 2022. Collecting data by using stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire developed by the researcher from interviews with 5 experts who specialize in the control and prevention of coronavirus disease 2019, consisting of 1 doctor, 2 nurses, 2 academics, and applied Spencer & Spencer Performance Concept The questionnaire consisted of 36 items with confidence based on the content validity between .67 – 1.00 and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient formula 0.971. The data were analyzed by elemental analysis using extraction of principal elements orthogonally rotated element axis with exploratory factor analysis.
The results showed that the Competencies of professional nurses in nursing with coronavirus disease 2019, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute consisting of 5 main components and 36 sub-components, the total variance was 71.664 percent, each of which accounted for 18.216, 16.287, 13.915, 11.916, 11.329 percent, respectively. The research found that component 1 knowledge competencies on coronavirus disease 2019 prevention and control had the greatest percentage variance, indicating that nurses must be developed in emerging disease situations to have the knowledge, competence, and practical skills. According to the agency's first and most important infection prevention and control standards.
Recommendations: This study is used as a guideline for planning a training program to develop appropriate competencies for professional nurses in caring for coronavirus patients.
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