Relationships between Work Experience and Nursing Training with Perceived Caring of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients by Registered Nurses, Regional Hospitals, Lower Northeastern Thailand
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Background: Caring for traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients in the inpatient department is complex. Nurse has significant roles to assess the changes of patient’s signs and symptoms and making decisions to help patient, to give advices to patient’s family or caregiver. If nurse lack experience and training, it may cause some inaccurate perceptions of care for TBI patients, which leads to incorrect caregiving.
Objective: To explore relationships among work experience, nursing training, and perceived care of TBI patients by registered nurses in regional hospitals in the lower part of the northeastern region of Thailand.
Methods: This research is the descriptive correlational research design. One hundred forty-eight registered nurses who work in an inpatient department caring for TBI patients in the lower of northeastern region were recruited for this study. The questionnaires were employed to elicit demographic data, TBI-related training, and perceptions of traumatic brain injury by registered nurses. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients.
Results: The mean score of nurses’ perceived knowledge was at a high level ( = 64.6, SD = 10.2). In terms of confidence, the mean was also at a high level (
= 18.7, SD = 5.6). While the mean for beliefs in caregiving for TBI patients was at a moderate level (
= 17.0, SD = 0.9). A positive correlation at a low significant level was found between the experience of caregiving for TBI patients, the frequency of caring for moderate-to-severe TBI patients, and the nurses’ perceived knowledge of caregiving for TBI patients (r = 0.294, 0.212, p-value < 0.01). While TBI training and nurses perceived knowledge of caregiving for TBI patients by registered nurses had a positive correlation at a moderately significant level (r = 0.389, p-value < 0.01). However, the experience of caring for TBI patients and TBI training did not significantly correlate with nurses’ perceived confidence and beliefs in caregiving for TBI patients.
Conclusions: Nurses’ perceived knowledge of caregiving for TBI patients’ correlation with TBI-related training. These results can be used to promote specialized training for registered nurses.
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