Investigation and Analysis of Nursing Intern’s Willingness to Practice in Pediatrics
AUTHORS
Kokula Krishna Hari Kunasekaran, Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties (ASDF), United Kingdom
Min Wang, Department of nursing, Mudanjiang Medical University, China
ABSTRACT
In pediatrics, nursing interns are an important reserve force for nursing work. The willingness to practice in pediatrics is important to nursing effect and future development for pediatric. This study selected 216 pediatric nursing interns as the study samples and investigate their pediatric nursing cognition and pediatric nursing willingness. The survey confirmed that ≥60% of the interns agreed that the pediatric nursing has the following Features: pediatric nursing requires high professional technical ability, communication and coordination ability of practitioners, heavy workload and pressure, and pediatric nursing staff is in short supply, but professional development space is large. Among 216 interns, 182 (84.26%) are willing to take up nursing work after graduation, of which 73 (33.8%) are willing to take up pediatric nursing work. The research results indicate that nursing managers should take measures to improve the pediatric nursing practice environment, improve the salary and treatment of pediatric nursing staff, carry out pediatric communication skills training and situational exercises for nursing interns, improve their ability to deal with various communication scenarios, and prepare for the transition of pediatric nursing practice for interns.
KEYWORDS
Pediatrics, Nursing intern, Willingness to practice, Nursing cognition
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