UNDERSTANDING OF PERSON-CENTERED CARE CONCEPT: MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSES PERSPECTIVE

. Person-centered care is an approach to care that is underpinned by mutual respect and the development of a therapeutic relationship between patient and nurse. This approach had been widely used in giving care to many health-care organizations in developed countries. This study aimed to assess the understanding of person-centered care within medical-surgical nurses. This study was conducted in medical-surgical wards in Public Hospital. The samples were 100 nurses, which taken from six medical-surgical wards using total sampling. A cross-sectional survey using the person-centered assessment tool was used to measure the current understanding of person-centered. The findings of this research indicated that the majority of nurses gained a moderate level of understanding of the person-centered care concept for 63%, some gained a high level of understanding (36%), and one nurse (1%) had low understanding. The findings indicated that the majority of nurses in medical-surgical wards presently had a moderate understanding of person-centered care. A better understanding of person-centered care was necessary in terms of proficiency in person-centered practice.