A study of Standard Nursing Practice Among nurses who provide nursing care for foreign patient

Abstract

The aims of this descriptive study were to determine the standard nursing practice among nurses who provide nursing care for foreigner patients. Samples was 152 nurses whom were  purposive selected from 2,137 nurses who are working in hospital locating in Surin Province both government and private hospital. Data were collected by structured questions which were send to three experts for content validity. Questionnaires were test reliability by cronbach’s  alpha. Chi-squared were used to test the relationship between characteristics and standard nursing practice. 

  The results were shown that majority of samples were female (91.40%), ages between 22-59 years (M= 37.34, SD = 10.71), hold a bachelor degree (95.40%), has income between 14,000-55,000 Baht/month (M=28,848.88). Regarding to the nurse’s roles, years of working as nurse were 1-37 years (M=15.16, SD=10.93), year of nursing care for foreigner patients were 1-25 years (M=7.50, SD=5.59). Halves of samples were working at tertiary care hospital in which 19.70% working in surgery ward. Mean scores of standard nursing practice were at high level (Min-Max =45.00-74.00, M=59.32, SD=5.14). Moreover, place of working and year of working for providing nursing care for foreigner patients were statistically positive associated with standing nursing practice (=22.195, p<.001) and (=13.533, p =.001).

The suggestions are that nurses who are providing care for foreigner patients should    providing care with caring and humanized care by communicate clearly and providing health teaching based on standard nursing practice regulate by nurse organization.