Barriers and Facilitators for Execution of Nursing Process Among Nurses in Mayo Hospital Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Background: Nursing process is a global concept, which builds the base of nursing as profession. The nursing process is used in many hospitals for implementation of nursing efforts. Nursing has always directed to provide comfort, care, and assurance to the patients in order to keep them healthy. The nursing care may involve many activities ranging from holding a hand of the patient to carrying out complicated technical procedures. Objectives: objective of this study is to determine barriers and facilitators which nurses face during implementation of nursing process in hospitals. Methodology: Descriptive cross sectional study design with a sample size of 124 participants which were selected through convenient sampling in Mayo hospital Lahore. Results: results of this study were carried out using SPSS version 21. From 100% participants 0.8% of the participants were male and 99.2% participants were female. 89.5% participants have good knowledge in nursing process and 67.7% participants practice nursing process often. 84.68% participants revealed that Hospital management needs to be progressive on benefits of nursing process. 87.9% participants stated that they face barriers related to insufficient resources. 65.3% participants were agree admitted that nursing process is time consuming. 62.9% participants were not agree about having enough time for execution of process. 79.8% participants admitted that they have got this knowledge during training life. Conclusion: This study concluded that nurses have a worthy knowledge about nursing process. Most nurses practice it often and others who cannot implement it may face barriers like shortage of time, inadequate resources and some managerial inadequacies.

Keywords: Execution of Nursing Process. Barriers & facilitators.

DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/77-07

Publication date:July 31^st 2020