Open AccessNurses’ attitude towards patient advocacy in a single tertiary care hospital
Author(s) -
Alanezi Fahad Zeed
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
nursing open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2054-1058
DOI - 10.1002/nop2.958
Subject(s) - tertiary care , nursing , cognition , medicine , nursing care , family medicine , positive attitude , psychology , patient care , social psychology , psychiatry
Aim To determine nurses’ attitude towards patient advocacy in a single tertiary care hospital. Design Descriptive/analytical cross‐sectional studies. Methods A comprehensive two‐part questionnaire about nurses’ views on nursing advocacy was administered to 371 nurses using a convenient random sampling. The first part included eight demographic variables, and the second part, the questionnaire, was used to measure nurses’ attitude towards patient advocacy. Results Nurses were more likely to act as patient advocate when their patient was in danger, and their employment was not at risk while acting as patient advocates. Female nurses scored higher than males; those with higher qualifications had higher behavioural and cognitive scores. A significant correlation was observed between cognitive (belief) aspects of attitude ( p = .78, p ≤ .001) and behavioural (efficacy) aspects ( p = .89, p ≤ .001).