Effectiveness in learning nursing process in a hospital area

Abstract

The nursing process allows substantiating theoretical-practical knowledge acquired by students during their training in order to become nursing professionals. Therefore, a descriptive, retrospective, and transversal study was conducted, with a convenience sample of 54 students in the third year of their bachelor degree in nursing. A questionnaire was applied with a reliability of 0.87. The data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics. Results: 64% of the sample have sufficient level of knowledge about the nursing process, and the average score was 8.3. Perception of self-efficacy implementing nursing process, students report they feel safe applying it in the hospital area by 72%, and 22% reported that they feel completely secure in its implementation. In hospital area, 67% of the students expressed that teachers facilitated the learning of nursing process, while 31% express that comrades facilitated this learning, and only 2% stated that nurses contribute to teaching nursing process. Conclusions: thelevel of knowledge in students is enough in regard to nursing process, and perception of self-  implementing nursing process, students feel safe, they say that teachers help in learning this tool in hospitals, but several factors limit the application of nursing process in hospital settings, among this factors are: an excess in the number of patients, and the lack of time.