Comparison Of Awareness, Attitude, And Professional Function Of Graduates And Senior Nursing Students

Abstract

Background: Nurses are the biggest group of health system professionals and have a considerable effect on the quality of the health care currently being provided.Purpose: To investigate awareness, attitude, and professional function of nurses from the view points of person himself, colleagues, instructors and service consumers (patients).Methods: This research is a cross-sectional study carried out to compare the awareness, attitude, and function in employed nurses and senior nursing students. Subjects of the study were 54 employed nurses who had B.S degree from Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and had been in service for4 to 6 years in internal or surgery wards in one of the University’s hospitals and were steel working at the time of the study. Subjects were chosen with purpose based sampling method and were compared with 54 senior university students from the faculty of nursingand midwifery who were ready to pass their training period in internal or surgery wards and were chosen randomly. The tools for collecting data were 4 questionnaires on the degree of awareness, attitude, professional functioning, and the viewpoints of patients, supervisors, and instructors.Results: Mean score of awareness for the nurses and students was 63.7± 3.2 and 45.3±2.1 respectively (P