PERCEPTIONS OF INDONESIAN PRACTICAL NURSES TOWARDS UPDATING CAPABILITY TO PROVIDE CARE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

• Main Authors: Fitri Arofiati (Author), Khanitta Nuntaboot (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Belitung Raya Foundation, 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 2477-4073; 2477-4073
• Keywords: Competence; Continuing Professional Development; Qualitative Research; Nurse Practitioners; Nursing; RT1-120
• Source: Belitung Nursing Journal, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 3-13 (2017)

Background: Capability to provide care can be recognized as the combination of nursing knowledge, skills, and attitude of care which is dynamic. Objective: This study aims to explore the perceptions of practical nurses towards updating capability to provide care. Methods: A descriptive qualitative study was conducted to explore the deep understanding of practical nurses towards updating capability to provide care. Data were gathered using in-depth interview with 25 practical nurses from different areas of practices, three times focus group discussion (FGD) and participant-observation. Qualitative content analysis model was applied to anaylze the data. Result: There were two themes emerged from data: 1) Internal perceptions of updating capacity to provide care, with three subthemes: Having great expectation, Being confidence as a professional nurse, and Developing Self-Initiation, 2) External contexts driving perception of practicing nurses, with two subthemes: Giving best care and Acquiring requirement. Conclusions: The findings indicated that updating capacity to provide care supports practical nurses to provide better nursing services to patients and meet the regulation of nursing professionalism.