Nursing attitude faced with the administrative process of rotation in hospital services

Abstract

Introduction: For long time the nursing personnel have been made frequently rotations of turns and services, this process has received relative attention, because the changes are made without evaluation of nurses clinic competence. This is very important to situate the best personnel in the best places; it is necessary to emphasize to give their the appropriate job's induction course.

Objective: To identify the attitude of the nursing personnel to the rotation of services and its influence in the attention to the patient.

Material and methods: A transversal, observational and descriptive study was realized. Nursing personnel at Hospital de Especialidades del Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI was the universe study. From 15 to 19 march 1999 a questionnaire was applied to 268 nurses, this number corresponds to 34.8% of the total nursing staff. We worked with an instrument with 48 items, 26 were Likert modificated. The rotation personnel, attitude of nursing personnel to the rotation and the implications of the nursing attention were the variables analyzed.

Results: 87% of the population in study preferred stay in the administrative process, 28% did not like the frequency of the rotation, 7% was bother with the necessity to be integrated to new teams work, 28% have more mistakes in a service in which is not of their liking and 37% wanted the rotation every 2 years.

Conclusion: It is very important to identify the favorable opinion expressed by the nurses in the rotation allowed to have more abilities and skills. Also to identify the work time and experience in a service allowed to compare Patricia Benner theory.