Age-friendly nursing care perceived by professional nurses working in hospital wards: Project on development of age-friendly nursing service system

26^th World Congress on Nursing Care

May 21-23, 2018 Osaka, Japan

Roongtiwa Chobchuen, Siriporn Mongkholthawornchai, Boonsong Hatawaikarn, Uriwan Chaichangreet, Pusda Pukdeekumjorn and Panita Limpawattana

Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

This descriptive study aimed to evaluate the age-friendly nursing care as perceived by professional nurses. The sample was the professional nurses under the development of age-friendly project. A total of 337 participants from 9 departments were asked questions using age-friendly nursing care scale developed by Boonsong Hatawaikarn during April-December 2014. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the outcomes. The results showed that: (1) The overall scores of age-friendly nursing care scale were high, the average score was 4.34/5 (standard deviation (SD=0.75) where the highest scores were in the areas of attitude and communication, the respect and right protection of older adults. The other areas; nursing care, age-friendly environment, social and family support in caring older patients during hospitalization were in the high levels and (2) Nurse's perception regarding age-friendly nursing care classified by department was highest in surgery and orthopedics department with the average scores of 4.52/5 (SD=0.71). The scores of other departments were high. The level of perception influences the quality of age-friendly nursing care. Thus, nursing organization should support more on the development of age-friendly nursing care in order to improve efficiency in geriatric care.

Biography :

Roongtiwa Chobchuen has completed Master’s degree of Nursing from Khon Kaen Universit,y Thailand. She is the Nurse Specialist for Aging Care and Vice Director Division of Nursing, Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. She has published more than 5 papers in reputed journals.
Email:roocho@hotmail.com