Nurses’ Performance at the Family Planning Clinics in Alexandria | ||||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Volume 21, Issue 2, December 2019, Page 11-16 PDF (403.12 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2019.206591 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Walaa Khamis Abo El-Enen* ; Sahar Anwar Rizk; Maha El Habashy | ||||
| Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Everywhere it is recognized that nurses can make unique and useful contribution to family planning by performing a variety of tasks including initial assessment of client, counseling, services delivery, infection prevention and control, and also follow up. Good nursing performance in family planning clinics helps individuals and couples to meet their reproductive health needs safely and effectively. Thus, it can help for increasing family planning users and control morbidity, mortality rate and unplanned population growth. Objective: Assess nurses' performance at Family Planning Clinics in Alexandria. Setting: The study was conducted at 12 Family Planning Clinics; 4 Family Planning Clinics (FP) affiliated to 4 hospitals that randomly selected one from each health agency in Alexandria. The remaining 8 outpatient FP clinics, affiliated to Family Health centers that were randomly selected, one from each zone in Alexandria. Subjects: All nurses (100) working at the FP Clinics affiliated to the previously mentioned settings. Tool: Nurses’ Performance Observational Checklist. Results: 94% of study nurses had fair score of performance in family planning clinics. The rest (6%) & none of them had good as well as poor total score of performance respectively. Study findings also show that, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between attending training programs about family planning and level of nurses' performance. There was no statistically significant correlation between total score of nurses' performances and their Socio demographic characteristics as: age, marital status, level of education and occupation of the recruited subject. Conclusion: In all study setting the majority of study nurses had fair total score of performance regarding F.P clinics, while the rest 6% of the recruited nurses had good score of performance and none of them had poor score of their performance in family planning clinics. Nurses’ performance has positive significant relation between received training programs about family planning and their performance in family planning clinics. Recommendations: Clear job description should be made for nurses in family planning clinics and review regularly and update as necessary. There is an urgent need to design periodic educational training programs to improve knowledge, skills of nurses about family planning care as well as to improve their performance. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Nurses’ performance; Family planning | ||||
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