How do Tanzanian hospital nurses perceive their professional role? A qualitative study

AIM: To describe the experiences of Tanzanian nurses, how they perceive their role as a professional nurse and their experience with nursing care in a general hospital. DESIGN: This study is explorative, descriptive and qualitative. METHODS: The data were collected in 2015 by means of 10 semi‐struct...

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Autores principales: Tjoflåt, Ingrid, John Melissa, Theodotha, Mduma, Estomih, Hansen, Britt S., Karlsen, Bjørg, Søreide, Eldar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6056436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30062026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.139
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author Tjoflåt, Ingrid
John Melissa, Theodotha
Mduma, Estomih
Hansen, Britt S.
Karlsen, Bjørg
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description AIM: To describe the experiences of Tanzanian nurses, how they perceive their role as a professional nurse and their experience with nursing care in a general hospital. DESIGN: This study is explorative, descriptive and qualitative. METHODS: The data were collected in 2015 by means of 10 semi‐structured interviews and was analysed using qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The data analysis revealed two themes with corresponding sub‐themes related to Tanzanian nurses' perception with their professional role and experiences with nursing care: (1) Feeling professional pride; (2) Experiencing limitations and inadequacy. The findings indicate that the Tanzanian nurses possess a strong professional pride and commitment to serve and care for their patients. The nurses do their best to provide high ‐quality nursing care but are faced with staffing shortages and limited materials that are beyond their control. Such limitations leave them feeling unable to fulfil their role and responsibilities.
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spelling pubmed-60564362018-07-30 How do Tanzanian hospital nurses perceive their professional role? A qualitative study Tjoflåt, Ingrid John Melissa, Theodotha Mduma, Estomih Hansen, Britt S. Karlsen, Bjørg Søreide, Eldar Nurs Open Research Articles AIM: To describe the experiences of Tanzanian nurses, how they perceive their role as a professional nurse and their experience with nursing care in a general hospital. DESIGN: This study is explorative, descriptive and qualitative. METHODS: The data were collected in 2015 by means of 10 semi‐structured interviews and was analysed using qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The data analysis revealed two themes with corresponding sub‐themes related to Tanzanian nurses' perception with their professional role and experiences with nursing care: (1) Feeling professional pride; (2) Experiencing limitations and inadequacy. The findings indicate that the Tanzanian nurses possess a strong professional pride and commitment to serve and care for their patients. The nurses do their best to provide high ‐quality nursing care but are faced with staffing shortages and limited materials that are beyond their control. Such limitations leave them feeling unable to fulfil their role and responsibilities. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6056436/ /pubmed/30062026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.139 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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