การศึกษาต่อเนื่องทางวิชาชีพและการพยาบาลที่มีคุณภาพของพยาบาล โรงพยาบาลทหาร ประเทศสาธารณรัฐแห่งสหภาพพม่า

Abstract

Continuing professional education and quality nursing care are very important in
nursing profession, leading to enhance quality of services and career development. The
purposes of this descriptive correlational study were to explore continuing professional
education, barriers to continuing professional education, and quality nursing care as well
as to examine the relationships between continuing professional education and the
overall quality and various categories of quality of nursing care among nurses, at military
hospitals in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The sample was 260 nurses who
worked in two general military hospitals. Research instruments included a Demographic
Data Form, a Continuing Professional Education Questionnaire, a Deterrent to Participation
Scale, and a Good Nursing Care Scale. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the Deterrent
to Participation Scale and the Good Nursing Care Scale was 0.83 and 0.88. Data were
analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product-moment correction
coefficient. The results revealed that continuing professional education of nurses was
at a low level (x̅ 8.76, S.D. = 5.41). Barriers to continuing professional education was at
a moderate level (x̅= 69.58, S.D. = 13.01). Quality nursing care as perceived by nurses
was at a moderate level (x̅= 222.81, S.D. = 13.19). There was a significant positive
correlation between quality nursing care and continuing professional education amongnurses (r = 0.31, p < 0.01). Nurse administrators can use the results of this study to facilitate
continuing professional education for nurses and to develop strategies to enhance the
quality of nursing care.