Nurses' attitude and barrier toward of performing physical assessment in medical and surgical wards
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Nurses’ barrier, Surgical wards, Physical assessmentAbstract
Background: Physical Assessment is an essential in identifying the potential patient problems and responses to care. Also, there are skills used "rarely" in the practice which reveals evidence of practice gap. Improper patient assessment has a concern on nursing practice which fail to recognize patient deterioration. Method: A cross-sectional design of 253 nurses from five hospitals in Al Madinah Al Munawarah, Saudi Arabia, to study the relationship between the nurses' attitudes and the barriers to perform physical assessment and participants' demographic data on the physical assessment practices.
Finding: Around half of nurses showed a positive attitude toward performing the physical assessment. There was a positive significant association between attitude and perceived barriers of self-confidence, time limitation during the shift, and reliance on technology. Conclusion: This study suggests that improving nurses' practice of physical assessment should begin at the pre-graduation level to enhance skills, critical thinking, and self-confidence. Aim of this study: This study aimed to investigate the nurses' attitudes toward performing the physical assessments, and barrier influences the practices of physical assessment in the clinical settings. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first study discusses the PA practice of nurses in clinical settings in Saudi Arabia.
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