Individualized care perceptions of nurses working in internal medicine clinics and patients admitted to the internal medicine clinics with the diagnosis of COVİD-19

This study was conducted to evaluate the perception of individualized care of the nurses provided care to COVID-19-infected patients and the patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of COVID-19 to internal medicine clinics. This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in the internal medicine clinics, only provides care for covid-19 patients, of Istanbul Haseki Training and Research Hospital between 10 June 2021 and 10 June 2022. 269 patients hospitalized in pandemic internal medicine clinics and 35 nurses working in clinics were included in the study. The data of the study were collected using Patient Information Form, Individualized Care Scale-B-Patient, Nurse Information Form, Individualized Care Scale-B-Nurse. IBM® SPSS® Statistics V22.0 for Windows was used for statistical analysis of the research data. Statistical alpha significance level was accepted as p<0.05. In the study, the mean scores of the patients and the nurses on the Individualized Care Scale-Patient scale were 3.79±0.82 and 3.87±1.05 respectively. The mean satisfaction level of the nurses with the care they provided was 6.5±1.7 (range 4-10), while the average of the satisfaction level of the patients was 7.2±2.3 (range 1-10). There was no statistically significant difference between the individualized care scale mean scores and subscore mean scores of patients and nurses.