بررسي نگرش پرستاران نسبت به افراد سالمند و پديده سالمندي

Nurses’ Attitudes towards older people and aging

زمينه و هدف:كيفيت ارايه مراقبت از فرد سالمند تحت تاثير عوامل زيادي قرار مي گيرد كه يكي از اين عوامل نگرش پرستاران نسبت به سالمندان و پديده ي سالمندي است. اين مطالعه با هدف بررسي نگرش پرستاران نسبت به افراد سالمند و پديده سالمندي انجام شد. مواد و روش كار: براي دستيابي به مقالات و مطالعات مربوط به نگرش پرستاران نسبت سالمندان و پديده سالمندي كليد واژه هاي Older People ،Attitudes وNursing ، در بانك هاي اطلاعاتي SID ، Magi ran ، Iran Doc, Science Direct ,Google scholar و Pub Med مورد بررسي قرار گرفته و سپس بر اساس ميزان ارتباط مقالات با موضوع پژوهش و نظر تخصصي گروه تحقيق، بر اساس معيارهاي ورودي30 مقاله مرتبط بدون محدوديت زماني انتخاب و بررسي شدند. يافته ها: پرستاران از اعضاي مهم تيم مراقبت بهداشتي هستند كه مسوليت مراقبت از بيماران سالمند را عهده دار هستند. يكي از اركان اصلي در ارايه هر نوع خدمتي، داشتن نگرش مثبت در مورد همان واحد است. نگرش پرستاران نسبت به سالمندان تحت تاثير عوامل مختلفي نظير باورها و اعتقادات فردي و مذهبي، تجربيات خانوادگي و شغلي هر فرد، فرهنگ جامعه و ميزان درك پرستاران از سالمندان قرار دارد. نتيجه گيري: اميد است كه در نهايت با ارايه آموزش هاي تخصصي در دوران تحصيل دانشجويان پرستاري و نيز دوره هاي ضمن خدمت براي پرستاران شاغل بتوان با ارتقاي دانش و تغيير نگرش آنها گامي موثر در اين راه برداشت.

Background & Objectives: Qualifying the given services to the old people is affected by several factors and one of them is nurses’ attitudes toward the old people and aging phenomena. The aim of this study was to determine the nurses’ attitude to older people and aging phenomenon Materials and Methods:This study started searching wildly in databases such as Pub Med, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Iran Doc by older people, nursing and attitude key words to find related articles and studies about nurses’ attitudes toward the old people and aging phenomena. Then among all the articles, the ones were chosen which were more related to the research subject by the research group members. 30 articles were chosen based on the input criteria and no time limit was included. Findings:Nurses are the effective members of the health care team who are responsible to take care of the old people. So it is important for the nurses to become more familiar with the old people characteristics to be able to take care and meet their needs better. In order to give the better services to seniors, it seems necessary to have got positive attitude about them. The nurses’ attitudes to the old people and the aging phenomena is affected by their personal and religious beliefs, their personal experiences, social culture and the latter one is how much the nurses know about the old people. Conclusion:It is hoped to change the nurses’ attitudes about the seniors by offering them the proper lessons and courses.