Assessment of Nurses for Updating Themselves with Research at Selected Hospitals and Health Centers, West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Introduction Medical and health care is one of the most dynamic human discipline and large amount of money are spent annually of high quality and sophisticated research resulting in an exponentional growth in health care literature. If so implementation of the newly innovated research in to practice has a significant improvement in patient quality of care.
Objective-T0 assess nurses updating themselves with literature and put into practice.
Method- these study use institutional based descriptive cross sectional study. the study area iswest Gojjam zone, one of zones which is present in Amhara regional state. West Gojjam is oneof zones of two Gojjam zones. It major city administration is newly selected city called Finote Selam city 386 Km from Addis in North West.
Results – from the total respondents, 384, identified for the study, there is no non response rate.Most respondents(52.3%) are diploma nurse and the list in number were msc nurse. From totalstudy participant most of them had an experience of 6-10 years(53.4%). 67% has no habit ofupdating and 33.1% has habit of reading professional knowledge. Almost all respondents(100%)agreed that there was barrier to access. A number of barriers identified wasno internetaccess(78.13%). Not knowing to find articles(83.6%). Luck of understanding to interpretstatically term and jargon(84.9%). Managerial problem(70.6%). Absence of training(44.5%).
Conclusion and recommendation:The study shows almost all study participants(100%) responded that there are barriers forupading research litrature into practice. Among the barriers identified by thisd study lack of understanding to interpret stastical term and jargon (84.9%) takes the highest percentage. Asindicated by the study participant for suggested solutionhealth sector stakholders sould stand onimproving accessibility that will used for improving litrature searching skill
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Health Centers Nurses Hospitals