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The views of nurses regarding caring in the workplace
Curationis | Vol 26, No 1 | a1293 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v26i1.1293
| © 2003 A. Minnaar
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 27 March 2003 | Published: 27 March 2003
Submitted: 27 March 2003 | Published: 27 March 2003
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A. Minnaar,, South AfricaFull Text:
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This survey describes caring in the workplace in selected health services and is part of a greater study conducted in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This study describes the views of nurse managers and nurses regarding caring in the workplace. Human competence, recovery and healing are central to caring. To ensure caring and healing of patients in health services it is of the utmost importance for nurse managers to ensure a healthy and caring environment in the management of nurses. When caring is present in the workplace, nurses are more able to render caring nursing practices in the patient care environment. It is clear that to become a caring person, one must be treated in a caring way and that caring may be impaired or reinforced by the environment. The environment of interest to this study was the environment in which nurses practise. A descriptive survey with a convenience sampling explored caring in the workplace of nurses. The questionnaire was divided into two sections. Section A comprised demographic information and in section B the questionnaire consisted of Likert type questions, open-ended questions and yes/no questions. Analysis included descriptive statistics.
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