Evaluation of Perception on Nursing Diagnoses among Nursing students

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the student nurses' opinions on nursing diagnosis, to assess the level of perception of nursing diagnosis among student nurses, and to fmd the association between the level of perception of nursing diagnosis among student nurses with selec...

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Published inManipal journal of nursing and health sciences Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 36 - 44
Main Author R, Pramilaa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Manipal Manipal Universal Press 01.07.2023
Subjects
Clinical medicine
Critical thinking
Likert scale
Medical diagnosis
Nurses
Nursing care
Nursing education
Perceptions
Students
India
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Summary:Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the student nurses' opinions on nursing diagnosis, to assess the level of perception of nursing diagnosis among student nurses, and to fmd the association between the level of perception of nursing diagnosis among student nurses with selected demographic variables. Results: The results of the study demonstrated that 52% of respondents were familiar with nursing diagnosis before nursing education, 87.3% were competent enough to make a diagnosis, 95.1% opined that NANDA-I nursing diagnosis is necessary, 95.5% believed that nursing diagnosis produced a correct, planned and systematized care, 94.8% believed that nursing diagnoses increase patients' quality of life, majority 41% reported that nursing diagnosis is the difficult step in the nursing process, and 38.2% of students reported that they use the diagnostic label of 'infection risk' frequently. Additionally, written nursing care plans ensures quality nursing care to the patients (Carpenito-Moyet, 2013). Besides quality care, the execution of nursing process instills the construction of theoretical and scientific knowledge based on the best clinical practice (Pokorski et al., 2009; Zamanzadeh et al., 2015; Semachew, 2018) asserted that nurses face challenges in the application of the nursing process due to several causes. [...]it is predominant that the nursing process is completely acknowledged and personalized by individual nurses and that they develop competencies in using the nursing process efficiently (Zamanzadeh et al., 2015).
ISSN:2395-1397
2395-1397
DOI:10.55889/2582-7979.1294