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The Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education (한국간호교육학회)
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Importance of Nurses' Caring Behaviors as Perceived by Nurses and Patients at Emergency Departments

응급실 간호사와 환자가 지각한 돌봄행위의 중요도

  • Received : 2014.06.09
  • Accepted : 2014.08.07
  • Published : 2014.08.31
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Abstract

Purpose: This study was to investigate the importance of nurses' caring behaviors as perceived by nurses and patients at emergency departments, and to determine the differences between the two groups. Methods: The subjects of this study were 159 nurses working at emergency departments in 9 general hospitals in B Metropolitan City and 153 in-patients in 6 general hospitals, who were transferred to a general ward after being admitted to an emergency room. Research tool was a self-report questionnaire, which was a translated version of Caring Behavior Assessment(CBA). In this study, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ was ranged from .83 to .93 in the seven subscale's reliability of CBA. Results: In terms of caring behaviors at emergency departments, both nurses and patients perceived that the most important subscale was . The subscale which showed the least importance from both groups was . Conclusion: The results of this study have demonstrated that nurses' caring behaviors can meet the patient's needs if the gap in perceptions between nurses and patients would be reduced.

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