The quality of life and readiness of Polish nurses to take new competences of drug prescribing

Satisfaction with life in the case of nurses is closely related to their professional work and is an important factor affecting the quality of work and patient care.An analysis of the readiness of Polish nurses depending on the level of life satisfaction.The study was conducted from January to Novem...

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Published in:Medicine (Baltimore) 2018-09, Vol.97 (36), p.e12129-e12129
Main Authors: Marć, Małgorzata, Bartosiewicz, Anna, Burzyńska, Joanna, Binkowska-Bury, Monika, Januszewicz, Paweł
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Attitude of Health Personnel
Drug Prescriptions - nursing
Humans
Middle Aged
Nurse's Role - psychology
Nurses - psychology
Observational Study
Personal Satisfaction
Poland
Quality of Life
Young Adult
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Summary:Satisfaction with life in the case of nurses is closely related to their professional work and is an important factor affecting the quality of work and patient care.An analysis of the readiness of Polish nurses depending on the level of life satisfaction.The study was conducted from January to November 2016 in randomly selected 13 health care facilities and 756 nurses in the South-Eastern part of Poland. The study used the satisfaction with life scale and the author's questionnaire.Nearly 75% of the nurses surveyed declared (reported) a low and average level of satisfaction. The level of satisfaction significantly influenced the readiness of nurses to administer medicines and write prescriptions. Nurses who had a higher level of life satisfaction were also more prepared to prescribe foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses (rho = 0.095, P = .0092), medical devices (rho = 0.117, P = .0012), potent drugs (rho = 0.138, P = .0001), intoxicants (rho = 0.078, P = .0311), and psychotropic drugs (rho = 0.085, P = .0196).Nurses who had a higher level of life satisfaction were also more prepared to administer medicines, especially foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses, medical devices, potent drugs, narcotic drugs, and psychotropic drugs.
ISSN:0025-7974
1536-5964
DOI:10.1097/MD.0000000000012129