Level and predictors of caring behaviours of critical care nurses

BMC Nursing

Research

Jacqueline Maria Dias¹  Muhammad Arsyad Subu¹  Fatma Refaat Ahmed²  Rami Masadeh³  Ahmad Rajeh Saifan³  Mohannad Eid AbuRuz³ 

[1] Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE;Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE;Critical Care and Emergency Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt;Faculty of Nursing, Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan;

关键词: Caring behaviours;    Critical care nurses;    Jordan;    United Arab Emirates;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12912-022-01125-4

 received in 2022-07-19, accepted in 2022-11-28,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAdvanced technologies in intensive care units, including artificial intelligence and digitization, has implications for psycho-emotional aspects of caring in terms of communication, involvement, and holistic provision in a safe, effective, and efficient manner. Critical care nurses must maintain a balance between their technological and humanistic caring behaviours during the provision of individualized holistic patient care. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine level and predictors of caring behaviours among critical care nurses in two Arab countries.MethodsA cross-sectional design was used to achieve the objective of this study, whereby a quantitative online questionnaire survey was administered to 210 adult intensive care unit nurses at two government hospitals in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), and two university hospitals in Amman (Jordan). Based on G* Power analysis, 200 participants were adequate to run the analysis.ResultsOn average, 49% of the whole sample had ‘good’ caring behaviours. Among nurses who were working in Emirati intensive care units, 48.5% had good caring behaviours, compared to 47.4% of Jordanian intensive care unit nurses. Additionally, the results showed that predictors of caring behaviours among nurses include female gender, holding a master’s degree, interest in nursing profession, and a 1:1 nurse-to-patient ratio.ConclusionsAbout half of the ICU nurses in this study had low levels of caring behaviours. The present study highlights the requirement for integrating the concept of holistic and patient-centred care as the essence of the nursing profession in nursing curricula to improve the level of care provided by all nurses working in intensive care units. Continuing education programs and specific interventional programs should be directed toward predictors of caring behaviours among each specific group of nurses. Future research is needed using qualitative methods to understand what the perception of intensive care unit nurses is about caring.

【 授权许可】

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