Awareness and Attitude about Nurse Led Clinic (NLC) among Health Care Professionals

Authors

  • Kavita Bhoknal
  • T Sivabalan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v13i3.18195

Keywords:

Awareness, attitude, nurse led clinic, health care professionals

Abstract

Background: Nursing binds human society with a bond of care and affection. Nursing is a calling to care, which offers
an oasis of poignant stories and pool of challenges. The scope of nursing practice has expanded and extended to different
settings other than hospital only.Nurses deal with the most precious thing in this wide world the human life. The present
study was undertaken with an aim to determine the awareness and attitude towards Nurse Led Clinic (NLC) among
health care professionals.
Material and Methods: A descriptive study, was carried out among 105 health care professional (30 Nurses, 30 Physicians,
30 Dentistand 15 Physiotherapist of Pravara Rural Hospital Loni Bk to assess awareness and attitude about Nurse led
clinic. The participants was selected by simple random sampling technique, and self prepared and content validated
structured questionnaire (for awareness) and rating scale (for attitude) was used for data collection. The descriptive
statistics (mean, SD) and inferential statistics (chi square test) was applied wherever required.
Results: The overall knowledge scorefor nurse was(7.56±2.06), for physician (8.76±2.96), for dentist (9.0±2.92) and for
physiotherapist the score was (7.52±2.97) which is >50% indicating averagelevel of knowledge on NLC. In line with,
overall attitude score for nurse was (85.8±5.0) for physician (76.3±11.6), for dentist (79.1±10.7) and for physiotherapist
the sore was (72.8±7.56) which is >73% indicating average to good attitude on NLC. It was noted that the demographic
variables like age, gender, previous knowledge, work experience had significant association with knowledge and attitude
on NLC at 0.05 level.
Conclusion: The study findings showed thathealth care professionals hadaverageknowledge and good attitude
regardingthe nurse led clinic. The health care professional’s demographic variables had significantly associated with the
study variables. There was a weak correlation was observed between the study variables.

Author Biographies

  • Kavita Bhoknal

    Assistant Professor, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (DU), Smt.Sindhutai Eknathrao Vikhe Patil College of Nursing

  • T Sivabalan

    Principal Loni (Bk), Tal.Rahata, Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

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Published

2022-06-24

How to Cite

Awareness and Attitude about Nurse Led Clinic (NLC) among Health Care Professionals. (2022). Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 13(3), 190-194. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v13i3.18195