Nurse prescribing in Iran: postgraduate nursing students’ attitudes, readiness and self-efficacy in patient care

Autor: Somayeh Mousavi, Hamidreza Haririan, Hadi Hassankhani, Mahdieh Naeri
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery, Vol 21, Iss 3, Pp 30-33 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2588-3038
Popis: Background: In many countries, nurses serve as prescribers in the healthcare system to manage acute and chronic diseases. Nurse prescribing can be affected by specific variables, one of which is the nurses' self-efficacy. This study aimed to determine Iranian postgraduate nursing students’ attitudes and readiness for prescribing and its relationship with their self-efficacy in patient care. Methods: This correlational study was conducted on 220 postgraduate nursing students of Tabriz Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran, from Dec 2022 to Mar 2023. The total population sampling method was employed to include all students, and data were collected using a three-part questionnaire: demographics, nurse prescribing (attitude, and readiness), and self-efficacy questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS-26 software. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze demographics. ANOVA and t-tests were employed to compare mean scores, while the Pearson correlation coefficient measured the linear correlation between data sets. The significance level for all tests was determined to be p
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