2020 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 14-19
The purpose of the study was to clarify nursing practice environment as professional in nurses with a maternal role, and to identify the related factors. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 368 nurses with a maternal role while they were employed at 18 hospitals in A prefecture. The survey items investigated the capacity of the nursing practice environment as professional, as well as the related factors, including age, the age of their youngest child, and working conditions. The capacity of the respondent nursing practice environment as professional was evaluated using 21-items from subscales of the Japanese version of the Nursing Work Index-Revised (NWI-R). Data were analyzed by comparing descriptive statistics and NWI-R scores by age, the age of their youngest child, and work environment between groups.
Analysis of the 253 valid responses collected revealed that the NWI-R scores were lowest for the subscale “support from head nurses”, followed by “nursing care quality assurance” and “working conditions.” This result suggested the need for improvement regarding “support from head nurse." There were no significant differences in the NWI-R scores of groups with reference to age, the age of their youngest child, and work environment.
