Registered Nurses’ Competency in Caring for Emerging Infectious Diseases

Authors

  • Somporn Sungkeaw คณะพยาบาลศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
  • ธีรนุช ห้านิรัติศัย Faculty of Nursing. Thammasat University
  • บุญใจ ศรีสถิตย์นรากูร Thammasat University

Keywords:

registered nurses, competency, nursing, emerging infectious disease patients

Abstract

Abstract:
     Objective: To develop components of competency that registered nurses caring for patients with emerging infectious diseases should possess.
     Design: Descriptive study using the Delphi Technique.
     Methodology: The informants were 21 contagious disease professionals consisting of four physicians specialising in infectious diseases, fve nursing lecturers or nursing professors in charge of infectious disease curricula, six nurses in the infectious disease prevention and control units, and six head nurses of the infectious disease prevention and control units of their hospitals. Conducted from July 2018 to July 2019, this study progressed in three phases. In Phase One, the 21 informants were interviewed about their views on registered nurses’ competency in caring for patients diagnosed with emerging infectious diseases. In Phase Two, the interview data were examined using content analysis and literature consultation. The outcome was used to formulate a questionnaire in which the informants would be asked to rate how important the issue stated in each item was. In Phase Three, the answers obtained from Phrase Two would be calculated in terms of the mean and interquartile ranges, after which they would be sent back to the 21 informants for confrmation of their answers. Then the confrmed data were recalculated in terms of the mean and interquartile ranges. To conclude the study, every component of competency rated with a mean of higher than 3.5 and an interquartile value of less than 1.5 was selected.
     Results:In total, 48 components of competency were selected, which registered nurses caring for patients with emerging infectious diseases were expected to possess. These components were classifed in seven domains: 1) screening (3 components); 2) prevention, control, and vigilance of infectious diseases (15 components); 3) patient and family care (11 components); 4) emotional maturity (5 components); 5) professional ethics (3 components); 6) communication, coordination, and management skills (7 components); and 7) self-learning capacity (4 components).
     Recommendations: Nurses are encouraged to use the fndings as self-development guidelines to improve their competency in every step of caring for emerging infectious disease patients, from before their arrival at the hospital, during the screening process, in the emergency and trauma department, and in the intensive care unit. The fndings can also be used to develop assessment tools for nurses caring for this group of patients.

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2020-07-17

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Sungkeaw S, ห้านิรัติศัย ธ, ศรีสถิตย์นรากูร บ. Registered Nurses’ Competency in Caring for Emerging Infectious Diseases. J Thai Nurse midwife Counc [Internet]. 2020 Jul. 17 [cited 2024 Mar. 19];35(3):69-86. Available from: https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/TJONC/article/view/240473

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