Self-care neglect through the voices of nurses working in primary healthcare clinics in Gauteng, South Africa.

IF 2.2 Q1 NURSING
NURSING FORUM Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1111/nuf.12812
George Nkabinde-Thamae, Charlene Downing, Sanele Nene
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Abstract

Background: Self-care is essential, but while professional nurses often pay attention to the health of their patients, they give little heed to their own well-being. With the current pandemic continuing to negatively affect the world, the need for health professionals to make time for self-care is imperative. The concept "self-care" is not a new phenomenon; however, this study strives to show the importance of self-care practices in the world of nurses and its benefit for the nursing profession. The reality for nurses taking care of themselves will assist them in providing consistent quality care for their patients.

Method: A qualitative approach with a descriptive, phenomenological, contextual method was used in this study. Ten professional nurses employed within different primary healthcare clinics were selected through purposeful sampling. Through in-depth, individual interviews, the professional nurses shared their lived experiences with self-care practices while being employed within a primary healthcare clinic. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and then analyzed using Colaizzi's method.

Results: The findings revealed: Theme 1: Participants experienced internal and external factors that compromised self-care practices Theme 2: Holistic well-being and the quality of patient care are compromised by self-care neglect Theme 3: Participants experienced the need to take responsibility and accountability to promote self-care practices.

Recommendations: Specific recommendations were formulated to facilitate professional nurses' empowerment to practise self-care as a lifestyle. These specific recommendations focused on reducing the burden of caring for others to the extent that professional nurses working in primary healthcare settings have nothing left for themselves.

通过在南非豪登省初级保健诊所工作的护士的声音,自我保健忽视。
背景:自我护理是必不可少的,但是当专业护士经常关注病人的健康时,他们很少注意到自己的幸福。由于当前的大流行继续对世界产生负面影响,卫生专业人员必须腾出时间进行自我保健。“自我照顾”的概念并不是一个新现象;然而,本研究努力显示自我护理实践在护士界的重要性及其对护理专业的益处。护士照顾自己的现实将有助于他们为病人提供始终如一的高质量护理。方法:本研究采用描述性、现象学、情境性的定性方法。通过有目的的抽样,选择了10名在不同初级卫生保健诊所工作的专业护士。通过深入的个人访谈,专业护士分享了他们在初级卫生保健诊所工作期间自我保健实践的生活经验。访谈记录被逐字记录下来,然后用Colaizzi的方法进行分析。结果:研究发现:主题1:参与者经历了影响自我护理实践的内部和外部因素;主题2:整体幸福感和患者护理质量受到自我护理忽视的影响;主题3:参与者经历了需要承担责任和问责以促进自我护理实践。建议:制定了具体建议,以促进专业护士将自我护理作为一种生活方式。这些具体建议的重点是减轻照顾他人的负担,使在初级卫生保健机构工作的专业护士自己无事可做。
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NURSING FORUM
NURSING FORUM NURSING-
CiteScore
4.90
自引率
4.20%
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151
期刊介绍: Nursing Forum is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that invites original manuscripts that explore, explicate or report issues, ideas, trends and innovations that shape the nursing profession. Research manuscripts should emphasize the implications rather than the methods or analysis. Quality improvement manuscripts should emphasize the outcomes and follow the SQUIRE Guidelines in creating the manuscript. Evidence-based manuscripts should emphasize the findings and implications for practice and follow PICOT format. Concept analysis manuscripts should emphasize the evidence for support of the concept and follow an accepted format for such analyses.
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