Kontakt 2007, 9(1):70-77 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2007.009

Special education of paediatric nurses - assessment of surveyNursing

Jaroslava Fendrychová

Národní centrum ošetřovatelství a nelékařských zdravotnických oborů (NCO NZO) Brno, katedra ARIP

The communication deals with a survey of motivations and opinions of paediatric nurses working at intensive care units, who applied for the special education in the ARIP programme (anaesthesiology, resuscitation and intensive care in paediatrics). The target of the project was to acquire data from nurses, who have just completed this type of study. The author searched for questions, what their expectations were and whether they were fulfilled, if they familiarized their colleagues with knowledge acquired in the course of the study, how their knowledge was accepted and also whether physicians were interested in their study. The intention of the author was to use the knowledge from the project as a feedback for the existing method of the special education and for the preparation of a new programme and choice of new lecturers.
The results of the project indicated that the study fulfilled the expectations of nurses in spite of the fact that their application for the study was rather a decision of the employee than their own choice. In the motivation of nurses, attempts to complete or amplify their knowledge, interest in the problems, enhancement of the qualification, acquiring of new knowledge or only attempts to acquire a special qualification were prevalent.
There was a very positive finding that nurses transferred new knowledge from the study to each other and that this was also typical in the past. Their knowledge was mostly accepted by other colleagues with interest, except for two negative cases. Introduction of new methods into practice did not posed considerable problems, though if some leavers were not still sufficiently courageous.
Physicians were not interested very much in the study of nurses, but they also liked helping them. The nurses explained the low interest of physicians in different ways: low interest in nurses at all; some of them simply did not know what the reason was.

Keywords: Specialization education; paediatric nurse; nurse specialist; motivation to study

Received: April 16, 2007; Accepted: May 7, 2007; Published: June 15, 2007  Show citation