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    Assessment of Nurses’ Attitudes to Ward Nursing Profession and Associated Factors in Addis Ababa Public Hospitals,Ethiopia,2021.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-06) Defa Abdurkie; Mengistu Zuriash(PhD); Habte Teshome (MSc)
    Back-ground: unfavorable attitude toward nursing profession remaining the global problem. For many years, started in Florence nightingales nursing has been denied as a profession due to the historic background and considered as physician‟s assistant. Attitude is the pillar of the nursing profession which is more related to fundamental concepts of the nursing profession, like autonomy, being in the sense of public, accountability, respect and integrity Attitude of nursesto ward nursing profession may varies depends on age, work experience, social supporting factors, organizational factors and nurses image toward their profession. Objectives: this study aimed to assess nurses‟ attitude toward the nursing profession and associated factors in Addis Ababa public hospitals, Ethiopia, 2021. Methodology: Institutional based quantitative cross-sectional study design was conducted in five randomly selected public hospitals. A structured self-administered questionnaire was use to collect data from study participants from February to March 2021. Systematic random sampling method was used to select study participants from study populations. The collected data were entered and analyzed by using SPSS 25version. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analysis were computed to describe the associationbetween attitude and independent variables. A variable at P- value less than 0.05 with 95% of CI was declared as statically significant. Result: A total of 357 nurses were selected to participate in this study, among these, 348 participated making a 97.5% of response rate. A total of 60.6%(n=211) of study participants were female and 39.4% (n=137) were male. Only 36.5% of the study participants were members of the Ethiopian Nursing Association. About 29.6 %( n=103) were proud to be nurses. Older age nurses [(AOR: 1.19; 95% CI: 0.625, 13.37)], better monthlyincome [(AOR: 3.25; 95% CI: 1.873, 68.226)], good managerial support [(AOR: 2.40; 95% CI:0.197, 26.702)], availability of performance appraisal [(AOR: 1.37; 95% CI: 0.123, 5.884)], ethical related training [(AOR: 1.50; 95% CI: 0.35, 6.407)], positive nurses image [(AOR: 2.32; 95% CI: 0.166, 34.950)], positive public image [(AOR: 4.73; 95% CI: 2.136, 88.109)] weresignificantly associated with overall nurses attitude toward nursing profession. Conclusions and Recommendation: The overall attitude of nurses in Addis Ababa city public hospitals toward their profession was falls below average level. Majority of nurses had an intention to resign their profession due to low payment. To increases nurses attitude toward their profession, all stake holders should contribute their role by focusing on factors affects nurses‟ attitude.