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http://dx.doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2010.16.2.137

Attitude and Awareness of Nurses About Rooming-in System  

Kim, Eun-Young (Department of Nursing, Dong-A University)
Kim, Yun-Mi (Department of Nursing, Eulji University)
Kim, Ji-Soo (Department of Nursing, Gacheon University of Medicine and Science)
Cho, Dong-Sook (Department of Nursing, Eulji University)
Kim, Eun-Kyung (Department of Nursing, Mokpo University)
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Women's Health Nursing / v.16, no.2, 2010 , pp. 137-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study was done to examine the attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in for new mothers and their infants. Methods: Data were collected from 462 nurses from 40 hospitals from August 10 to September 20, 2008 using a questionnaire, and the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA. Results: The mean score for attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in was 3.02 (range=2.13~3.80), which indicates that the nurses had positive opinions of the system. The factors with the highest and lowest scores were awareness of a successful implementation method (mean=3.35) and awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of the system (mean=2.73), respectively. The attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in differed significantly with age, religion, education level, parity, type of hospital, hospital nurse staffing grade (bed-to-nurse ratio), and presence of a rooming-in system. Conclusion: This results of the study show that attitudes and awareness of nurses to rooming-in differed significantly according to personal factors (age, parity, religion, educational level) and work characteristics (hospital type, hospital nurse staffing grade, presence of rooming-in system). These findings can be used as basic data in determining optimal strategies for a system of rooming-in in the future.
Keywords
Rooming-in care; Attitude of health personnel; Nurses;
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