FACTORS PREDICTING NURSING SERVICE OUTCOMES OF SURGICAL PATIENTS PERCEIVED BY OPERATING ROOM NURSES, TERTIARY HOSPITALS, HEALTH REGION 7 THAILAND

Abstract

The objective of this predictive research was to investigate factors that can predict the outcome quality of the surgical patient care perceived by OR nurses working in 6 tertiary referral hospitals, Health Region 7. The sample was 229 OR nurses with at least one year of work experience. The data was collected from May 2021 to August 2021. The research instrument used in collecting the data was a questionnaire consisting of four parts: 1) personal data of OR nurses,
2) work environment, 3) nursing competency, and 4) outcome quality of the surgical patient care. The data was analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results of the study were as follow: 1) The overall outcome quality of the surgical patient care perceived by OR nurses was at a high level of (= 4.38, S.D. = 0.52).
2) Work environment perceived by the OR nurses was at a good level of ( = 3.22, S.D. = 0.41).
3) Nursing competency perceived by the OR nurses was at a high level of ( = 4.37, S.D. = 0.46).
4) The factors that can significantly predict the outcome quality of the surgical patient care were the nursing competency of the surgical patient care and the work environment affecting the use of the standards of the nursing services (r = 0.652, p < 0.01). The findings indicated that the variation of the nursing service outcome quality of the surgical patients was 42.50 % (R² = 0.425, p < 0.01) with a statistical significance at the 0.01 level.