Nursing history knowledge and professional attitudes of nurses

This study was carried out as a cross-sectional descriptor to examine nursing history and professional attitudes of nurses. The sample of the study consisted of 402 nurses working in a city and university hospital and agreeing to participate in the study. The data were collected by a research questionnaire consisting of the Introductory Traits Form, Nursing History Information Questionnaire Form and Attitude Towards Nursing Profession Scale. Number of data, Student t Test and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Duncan test were used to evaluate the data. It was found that 75.1% of the nurses participating in the study were female, 66.4% were undergraduate, 68.7% of them chose the profession of nursing and 79.9% of them liked doing their profession. It was determined that 80.1% of the nurses received nursing history education and 62.4% of them received nursing education during their university education. It was determined that the mean score of nurses from nursing history knowledge questions was 9.86±3.92 on 26 points. It was found that nurses' education, nursing history, taking care about nursing history, giving importance to the history of nursing, and reading status in history influenced the mean score of knowledge (p<0,05). When the scores of the nurses' attitude scale total score and their subscales were examined; the total score of the scale was 160.61 ± 21.21, the characteristics of the nursing profession, subscale score of 77.98 ± 10.96, the preference of the nursing profession, the subscale score of 44.47 ± 9.95, and the attitude towards the general status of the nursing profession. The scale score was found to be 38,17 ± 5,62. There was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the attitude scale of the nurses according to gender, educational status and year of service (p<0,05). With these results, it is suggested that nursing history teaching should be included more in basic nursing education and appropriate repetitions should be made, qualitative studies on nursing history and nurses should be directed to conferences and seminars about nursing history. Key Words: nursing, nursing history, professional attitude, history knowledge