Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2020, 3(1):59-69 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2020.001

CARING AND NURSING EXPERTISE ORIENTATION IN NURSING STUDENTS

Kateřina Ratislavová¹, Kateřina Kravcová²

¹ Katedra ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence, Fakulta zdravotnických studií, Západočeská univerzita v Plzni

² Kardiochirurgické oddělení, Fakultní nemocnice v Plzni

Background: Motivation to study general nursing is very actual theme because of lack of nursing professionals in nursing practice. This problem is discussed not only in Czech Republic, but also in foreign countries and there is effort to find the factors of student’s motivation to study nursing profession, to finish this study with success and to find the work in practice.

Aim: The aim of theses was discover nursing student’s orientation to nursing and healthcare expertise. We tried to find the differences in motivation to study and orientation to nursing between groups of students several specialization – Practice Nurse, General qualified Nurse and General Nurse with Bachelor title.

Methods: Cross-sectional study was made at the Nursing practice school, the High level nursing college in Pilsen region and Central Bohemian Region and at The University of West Bohemia. The information was collected anonymously via questionnaire.

Results: The resulting context come out from 193 answers of respondents. When we compare answers from Orientation to caring and nursing expertise questionnaire, we did not find out statistic differences between groups of students specific educational fields. When we compare specific factors relating with Orientation to caring questionnaire we find out significant differences between factors of Gender (p = 0.002), Basic experience with caring in family (p = 0.04), Direct work experience with care of patient (p = 0.001), Nursing like a hobby (p = 0.031) and Decision to stay in healthcare profession (p = 0.000). These variable values have a positive influence for results Orientation to caring questionnaire. When we compare these factors with Orientation to nursing expertise, there were significants only two factors, Direct work experience with care of patient (p = 0.026) and Decision to stay in healthcare profession (p = 0.000).

Conclusion: The most of Healthcare systems on the world contend with lack of qualified healthcare professionals on every level of provided healthcare services. This is the reason to find out causes of this problem and solve the consequences for maintenance quality and availability care of patient.

Keywords: cross-sectional study, nursing, motivation, study, specialization of general nurse

Received: April 20, 2020; Revised: April 20, 2020; Accepted: June 2, 2020; Published: January 18, 2021  Show citation