Veterans Health Administration nurses’ training and beliefs related to care of patients with traumatic brain injury

English version

Autoři: Tolu O. Oyesanya ^aff001
Působiště autorů: Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, United States of America ^aff001
Vyšlo v časopise: PLoS ONE 14(9)
Kategorie: Research Article
prolekare.web.journal.doi_sk: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222585

Souhrn

Background

Veteran patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their family members regularly receive care from nurses. Understanding nurses’ training and beliefs can provide direction for intervention work aimed at ensuring the best possible care is delivered to this population.

Aims

We examined Veterans Health Administration (VHA) nurses’ training and beliefs related to care of patients with moderate-to-severe TBI.

Design and methods

We conducted an exploratory, cross-sectional survey with 211 VHA nurses and analyzed data using descriptive statistics.

Results

The average years of nursing experience was 18 years, and 90% reported ever caring for a patient with TBI. Most nurses (70%) reported only seeing patients with TBI ≤1–2 times per year in their current role; 20% reported seeing these patients 1–2 times per month. Even with infrequent care, almost 50% reported previously receiving TBI-related training. Beliefs items with the highest accuracy indicated nurses agreed that they need specialized training to care for patients with TBI and that TBI recovery may continue for several years (96.39% accuracy respectively). The beliefs item with the lowest accuracy indicated focus on whether nurses agreed that TBI severity was important in developing care plans (27.84% accuracy). Nurses reported the need for clarity of the nursing role in caring for patients with TBI (77.32% agreement).

Conclusion

VHA nurses do have accurate beliefs about caring for Veteran patients with moderate-to-severe TBI; however, there is the need for further role clarification regarding nursing care of patients with TBI.

Impact

These findings have implications for development of education and training interventions for nurses who care for Veteran patients with TBI.

Klíčová slova:

Biology and life sciences – Neuroscience – Cognitive science – Social sciences – People and places – Population groupings – Professions – Medicine and health sciences – Critical care and emergency medicine – Health care – Health care providers – Nurses – Patients – Medical personnel – Neurology – Cognitive neurology – Cognitive impairment – Cognitive neuroscience – Outpatients – Political science – Trauma medicine – Traumatic injury – Veteran care – Neurotrauma – Traumatic brain injury – Rehabilitation medicine – Governments – Armed forces – Military personnel – Veterans

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