Holistic nursing care practice and associated factors among nurses in public hospitals of Wolaita zone, South Ethiopia
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- BMC Nursing, 2023, 22, (1), pp. 390
- Issue Date:
- 2023-10-18
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BackgroundHolistic nursing care is an approach to patient care that takes into account the physical social spiritual and psychological needs of the patient Providing holistic care has been found to be an effective way to prevent diseases and death as well as improve the quality of healthcare provided to patients However despite its perceived benefits many nurses lack experience with holistic care and only focus on patients physical needs treating them as biological machines while ignoring their spiritual mental and social needs Therefore this study aimed to assess the practice of holistic nursing care and its associated factors among nurses MethodsA hospital based cross sectional study was conducted among 422 sampled Nurses working in public hospitals in Wolaita Zone Systematic random sampling was applied to select the study participants A self administered pretested questionnaire was used to collect the data The collected data were entered into Epi Data version 4 6 and analyzed using SPSS version 25 Binary and multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors associated with holistic nursing care practice Statistical significance was declared at a p value less than 0 05 The strength of the association was indicated by the AOR and 95 CI ResultThe study found that the overall practice of holistic nursing care was 21 Nurses with a diploma in nursing AOR 0 28 95 CI 0 11 0 71 nurses working in a hospital with no continuous in service learning AOR 0 39 95 CI 0 20 0 76 nurses with a poor relationship with patients AOR 0 31 95 CI 0 16 0 58 and nurses with poor knowledge of holistic nursing care practice AOR 0 41 95 CI 0 21 0 7 were factors associated with a lower likelihood of practicing holistic nursing care ConclusionThis study found that the practice of holistic nursing care among nurses working in public hospitals in the Wolaita Zone was low Level of education the unit of work continuous in service learning the nurse patient relationship and the
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