Caring Behaviors of Nurses in a Military Hospital
Keywords:
Caring, Behaviors, Nurses, Military HospitalAbstract
The study assessed and compared the perceptions of military nurses and clients of the provision of caring behaviors in four (4) military hospitals across the country. This study employed the quantitative-qualitative descriptive research design to compare the caring behaviors of nurses in a military hospital as viewed from both nurses and patients based on Watsons’ theory of Human Caring. Being a joint quantitative-qualitative research endeavour, focus group discussion was conducted to verify results gathered through the survey. There was a significant difference in the perceptions of the provision of caring behaviors between nurses and military patients. Nurses’ perception with a grand mean of 4.54 had a significantly higher rating than patients’ perception with a mean score of 4.25 when compared using t-test since the p-value was .019, which was below the significance level of α=0.05. Therefore, the corresponding null hypothesis was rejected. Most of the patients’ gave the nurses highest rate in human needs assistance, existential/phenomenological spiritual forces, supportive/protective/corrective environment and humanism/faith-hope sensitivity subscales. Military patients value physical, mental, and spiritual caring competencies and the ability of the nurse to deliver a general feeling of well-being and nurses have to incorporate these aspects into practice if they are to promote quality nursing care in this population of patients. The healthcare workers must prioritize the patient’s needs and must have good caring behaviour to all patients without any biases.
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