Open AccessNurses attitude and perceived factors that influence working in rural communities in Delta State, South-South Nigeria
Author(s) -
Ehiemere Io,
T Onorikpori,
Ada C. Nwaneri,
Ndie Ec,
A Emeh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical nursing studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-7959
pISSN - 2324-7940
DOI - 10.5430/cns.v5n2p12
Subject(s) - descriptive statistics , positive attitude , data collection , descriptive research , nursing , psychology , rural community , work (physics) , test (biology) , rural area , medicine , medical education , family medicine , socioeconomics , social psychology , statistics , sociology , engineering , mathematics , mechanical engineering , paleontology , pathology , biology
The study was aimed at determining nurses’ attitude to and perceived factors that influence posting and working in rural communities in Delta State, Nigeria. Descriptive cross-sectional research design was used for the study. A total of 129 nurses covering the entire nursing staff working in these communities were studied. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire. The data obtained were subjected to simple descriptive statistics and t-test analysis. The results interestingly showed that nurses have positive attitude towards the acceptance of rural postings. This positive attitude not withstanding it was concluded that community Health nurses should be posted to rural areas since they are better prepared by training to work in rural communities.