Malahayati International Journal of Nursing and Health Science
Vol 2, No 2 (2019)

Caring behaviors by nurses in patients’ perceptions and experiencing an anxiety during hospitalization

Herwan Herwan (Rumah Sakit Umum Mayjend H.M. Ryacudu Lampung Utara)
Teguh Pribadi (Program Studi Ilmu Keperawatan Fakultas Ilmu Kesehatan-Universitas Malahayati)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Nov 2019

Abstract

Background: Feeling anxious due to lack of attention from the surroundings can be solved by providing a good caring performance from the health workers. The nursing experts place caring as the core principle of a nurse in performing his work. Caring behavior refers to giving attention to patients, respecting others, and showing empathy so that a nurse should maintain the relationship with the patients by having this the patients can commit and be responsible with them.Purpose: Knowing nursing caring behavior on anxiety level of hospitalized patients.Methods: This study was a quantitative study. The design was analytical with cross sectional approach. The population of the study consisted of 262 adult patients in average registered at Ryacudu General Hospital, Kotabumi Lampung. The elder and pediatric inpatients were excluded. The samples were 79 respondents. The sampling technique was accidental sampling.Results: Based on the statistical analysis, the p value was 0.487 or the p value > 0.05, there wasn’t nursing caring behavior on anxiety level of hospitalized patients.Conclusion: The health practitioners should improve their nursing quality by following nurse training about therapeutic communication. It is expected that health workers can increase caring so that patient anxiety can be reduced and can improve the quality of health services by providing training to all nursing staff on good and correct therapeutic communication.

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nursing

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Malahayati International Journal of Nursing And Health Science is a peer reviewed journal and provides a platform to publish area of nursing and health science. The journal also seeks to advance the quality of research by publishing papers introducing or elaborate on new methods in nursing and ...