Nurses attitudes towards reconstructive surgery

Nurses holding certain attitudes towards cosmetic surgery patients may affect their behavior with their patients, and consequently patients care. The aim of this study is to describe nurses attitudes towards cosmetic surgery patients. 134 nurses graduated from secondary schools of nursing and worked at least one year experience as permanent members of the staff in the burn unit, plastic surgery, and all surgical wards in the Main University Hospital in Alexandria have been selected. The results revealed that both cosmetic and surgical nurses have positive attitudes related to healthy concern of cosmetic patients about their physical appearance. On the contrary, most of the general surgery nurses expressed positive attitudes towards cosmetic surgery patients overly concerned about their physical appearance. In addition, more cosmetic nurses have positive attitudes towards both their enjoyment in providing nursing and provision of the same quality of care for cosmetic patients than the general surgery patients. More general surgical nurses expressed difficulty in providing care for elective cosmetic surgery patients and were not convinced with the necessary for the indication of elective cosmetic surgery than the cosmetic nurses. It was also found that more married more experienced cosmetic and general surgical nurses have positive attitudes towards cosmetic surgery patients than single and less experienced ones of both nurses. It is recommended to improve the general surgical nurses attitudes towards cosmetic surgery through an in-service training program about comprehensive care of the elective cosmetic surgery patients

Study of the variations of cholecystectomatized patients' concerns postoperatively and upon discharge from the Alexandria health insurance hospital

Fifty adult patients undergoing cholecystectomy were selected in the study from the health insurance hospital Gamal Abdel Nasser Data were collected using discharge concern question naire to identify different concern items of the patients under going cholecystectomy third day post operatively and upon discharge. The findings denote that physical concern items [mainly food that upset the stomach normal and abnormal signs] ranked first on the third day post operative and on discharge. There is positive correlation coefficient among the patients concerns on third post operative day an on discharge [r=0.64, 0.88]

comparison of attitudes and patterns of behavior between controlled and uncontrolled body weight of cardiac patients

A purposive sample of 30 cardiac patients with controlled body weight and 30 uncontrolled ones, based upon specified criterea selected from the alexandria outpatient clinics of the health insurance [Gamal Abdel Nasser Hospital] were participated in the study. Data were collected using a questionnaire, that elicited personal characteristics of the subjects and two measurement tools to assess the stated hypotheses. The results showed that the two groups did not differ significantly in relation to the personal characteristics. A significant difference was indicated between the two groups in relation to unhappiness while the perception of productive persistence was not statistically significant between the two groups. Regarding patients' attitude toward food and its relation to the emotion state, the finding indicated that 16 out of 23 items were statistically significantly different at 5% level. Cardiac patients with uncontrolled body weight perceived that they eat more when they are nervous, irritable and depressed. Controlled cardiac patients did not relate eating more to being nervous. In addition, uncontrolled body weight acknowledge that they had awareness of periods of over eating. This awareness was not expressed by cardiac patients who had controlled body weight

Identifying the sources of stresses and satisfaction in cancer nursing

Nursing a cancer patient is a stressing experience. The aim of the study is to identify the sources of stresses and satisfaction among nurses in direct contact with cancer patients via surgical and oncology departments at the main university hospital in Alexandria. A random sample of 100 diploma nurse with at least one year experience as a oermanent staff in the previously mentioned departments were included in the study. To achieve the objectives, a questionnaire was constructed including 32 questions handling the stressing and satisfying items experienced by the nurses. The result confirmed that highest incidents stressing situation expressed by the nurses were "Deterioration of patients' condition", followed by "Improper Standard of providing nursing care" and then by "communication Difficulies". Moreover, the highest incidents of satisfying items expressed by the nurses were "caring out and seeing positive results from nursing prosedures" followed by "Snowing patients Improvements" and then by "Receiving positive Reinforcements".

nurse's life satisfaction as influenced by their job satisfaction

Nursing is a stressful occupation. Taking care of sick people is considered physically and emotionally exhausting. Nurse's life satisfaction is the pleasure she feels within her working environment and family life. The aim of the study is to identify nurse's life satisfaction at three different health settings, via Intensive Care Unit, pediatric setting and medicine wards. A convenient sample of 90 nurses graduated from Higher Institute of Nursing was included in the study. A modified life satisfaction questionnaire scale was used to achieve the objectives. The findings confirm that nurses' life satisfaction was influenced by their job satisfaction at different health settings. There was a direct relationship between nurses' life satisfaction at the ICU and years of experience [r= 0.37]. Moreover, nurses working in IC unit express higher life satisfaction mean scores than nurses in the internal medicine wards

effect of the anxiety level of nursing students on their clinical achievement at the burn unit

The Burn Department is considered a very stressful place in the hospital for all those concerned with the provision of care for the burned patients. The current study aimed to identify the students' level of anxiety and its effect on their clinical achievement at the burn clinical setting. The study included all the nursing students who were assigned to care for burned patients. The Taylor anxiety scale was used to identify the students' level of anxiety. The clinical evaluation scores were obtained for three successive clinical rotations including the burn experience. The results revealed a negative relationship between the second year nursing students' level of anxiety and their clinical achievement [r= -0.15]

Study of nurses attitudes toward mastectomy

Nurses holding certain attitudes toward mastectomy may affect their behaviors with their patients, and consequently patient care. Hundred graduate nurses from four university hospitals and two Cancer Institutes in Cairo and Alexandria were participated in the study. Data were collected using mastectomy attitudes scale. The results showed that nurses subjected to surgical patients have positive attitudes toward mastectomy than nurses subjected to cancer and medical patients. It was also found that, married nurses have positive attitudes toward mastectomy, while single ones have negative attitudes. Finally, there was a strong positive correlation exerted between oncology nurses attitudes and years of experiences

Patient satisfaction in medical unit

This study was carried out to assess the factors which cause satisfaction for male patients in medical wards; and to determine the relationship of these factors with age, education and length of stay. A questionnaire interview was developed and carried out on eighty patients in medical wards at Alexandria Main University Hospital for 3 months. The result of the study showed that, confidence in doctors was the most important factor of patient's satisfaction