The Phenomenon of Patient Health Education by Nurses in Hospital

Abstract

Context: The National health problem in Indonesia from year to year tends to increase. The data from riset
kesehatan dasar during 2007-2018 has shown that the trend of most diseases is increased. The increase of
health problem in Indonesia mostly is caused by the lack of health education provided by hospital health
worker to patient. Dealing with these challenges, a qualitative research was conducted whose aim to describe
and explore the practice of patient health education done by nurses. The research method is qualitative
descriptive with phenomenology study. The technique used to select the informant is purposive sampling,
while the data collection done via depth interviews with 15 nurses. The research is implemented in one
of the hospitals in East Java, Indonesia. The Source triangulation is done with patients and the data were
analyzed using content analysis. The results of the study were that the health education was carried out in a
treatment room with a small number of patients. Nurses knew that patient health education was the primary
task of nurses, yet they consider it was not a priority. Health education was only provided if the patient
raised questions to the nurse. Most nurses did not carry out the stage of patient health education correctly.
Therefore, the hospital should make policies and regulations, develop planning, monitoring and evaluation
on a regular basis so that patient health education can run optimally.