IMPLEMENTATION OF FAMILY NURSING CARE BASED ON NURSES' CHARACTERISTIC AND WORK ENVIRONMENT IN HEALTH CENTER OF JAMBI CITY

Abstract

. The implementation of family nursing care is beyond expectations. It is because some nurses have not provided direct services to the community, feel compelled to make a home visit, and have not documented the activities well. A cross-sectional study using a questionnaire with public health nurses as participants. The survey included questions about the characteristics of nurses, work environment, and the implementation of family nursing care. One hundred fourteen nurses participated in this study taken with purposive sampling. The chi-square test and logistic regression used as the data analysis. No relation of sex, age, working period, education, and honorarium to the implementation of family care. However, there was the relationship between training, leadership, working facilities and the implementation of family nursing. There were several efforts to improve the ability and motivation of nurses in the implementation of family nursing care, such as increasing the frequency and quality of family nursing care training, improving leadership supervision, maintaining and improving work facilities. to go to communities. The PHN coordinator also say that no one have researched family nursing activities in the public health center. This study was a descriptive-analytic study with a cross-sectional design. The independent variables are nurses’ characteristics (age, sex, work period, education, and training) and work environment (leadership, honorarium, work facilities), and the dependent variable is the implementation of family nursing care. The study was conducted from April to October 2016 in 18 public health centers throughout Jambi City. Samples were 114 nurses taken by total sampling. Data explorers were carried out with questionnaires about the characteristics of nurses and the work environment. Data analysis used a chi-square test..