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Habit Of Reading Nursing Literature

Aim:Is to affirm how many time in a week, pronouncedly in hours, nurses read professional literature, taking in consideration their professional acquirement. Methods:In the researche participated 157 employed nurses / techinicians, within 91 nurses with middle professional acquirement, 48 with firstgrade and 18 nurses with erolled or finished diploma study.As an instrument in analyzing we used a questionary about reading professional literature that we independently constructed. Results: Nurses with higher education spend more time weekly reading professional literature than nurses with middle professional acquirement. There is no difference in time spended reading professional literature among nurses with middle professinal acquirement or firstgraded. They spend 2 hours weekly reading. Nurses in a Diploma study weekly spend 8.5 hours reading. The most used source in reading is internet, in all of three groups. Nurses in a Diploma study most often used Internet bases of scientific papers. Motivation factors the highest graded in all of three groups is eagerness to know and learn more about problems of the patients, to be in progress with nurses practice and to be in a rating with colleagues. As demotivating factors, the highest graded are lack of time, family obligations and tiredness. Conclusion: We considere that, in the future, necessary is to secure working conditions, also devote more attention to organisations support trough better acces to a library with more proffesional literature, possibility of using a computers and acces to internet on place of work. With all that, the goal is to encourage the enthusiasm and eagerness to learn, read and improve their practice. Key words: reading, nurse, proffesional literature

reading ; nursing literature

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