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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Nutr.
Sec. Clinical Nutrition
Volume 11 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1449271
Nutritional nursing competence of clinical nurses and its influencing factors: a cross-sectional study
Provisionally accepted
Yuan Tang
1*
Xiumei Wen
2*
Xiaoli Tang
1
Xiaoxue Li
1*
Li Zhang
1*
Shujuan Duan
1*
Ping Long
1*
Zixuan Zhou
1*- 1 Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
- 2 Yanliang District People's Hospital, Xi’an, China
Objective:Assessing the nutritional nursing competence of clinical nurses will enable nursing managers to develop measures to effectively address the nutritional nursing needs of patients. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the status quo and influencing factors of nutritional nursingcompetence of nurses in China. Method: A cross-sectional survey of nurses was conducted using self-designed socio-demographic questionnaire and a nutrition nursing competence scale. Analyzes were performed using descriptive and nonparametric tests. Result: The median score of nurses' nutritional nursing ability was 238 (210, 258). Univariate analysis confirmed that a total of 12 factors were shown to be statistically significant for nurses' competency in nutritional care. The results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that department, hospital level, monthly income, learned nutrition courses, regular participation in nutrition continuing education and training, be a nutrition specialist nurse, participation in nutrition nursing knowledge and skills training, and the hospital's regular conduct of special quality supervision of nutrition nursing and carried out special quality improvement projects of nutrition nursing. Conclusion: In China, the nutritional nursingcompetence of nurses is at an upper medium level and needs to be further improved. In order to improve the level of nutrition nursing, encourage and support nurses to take targeted nutrition care education and training, nursing managers should also adopt multi-mode intensive inspection and examination.
Keywords: Nutritional nursing, Clinical nurses, competence, Influencing factors, Cross-sectional study
Received: 14 Jun 2024; Accepted: 29 Nov 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Tang, Wen, Tang, Li, Zhang, Duan, Long and Zhou. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Yuan Tang, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
Xiumei Wen, Yanliang District People's Hospital, Xi’an, China
Xiaoxue Li, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
Li Zhang, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
Shujuan Duan, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
Ping Long, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
Zixuan Zhou, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
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