Gambaran Penerapan Pendidikan Kesehatan Oleh Perawat

Abstract

Nurses’ role as an educator is to provide patient education. An adequate education could improve patient health. In contrast, ineffective education could lead in increasing patient’s anxiety level, extend length of stay, etc. The purpose of this study was to describe nurses’ patient education practice. This study was performed by quantitative descriptive survey with cross sectional approach. Proportionate random sampling was used with a total sample 87 respondents. The data were collected using Nurse’s Patient Education Questionnaire. The result of this study indicate that 59,8% nurses practice were good and 40,2% were poorly implemented. Educational environment was the most well performed, in the contrast was healthcare organization. Professional development of patient education were less perceived and 29,5% did not get support from manager. The average time devoted by nurses to patient teaching around 21% of the shift, in the other words is approximately an hour and 28 minutes. Healthcare should provide nurses opportunities to self-development in a way evidence-based education can be applied in nurse’s patient education.