NURSING STAFF VIEWS ABOUT THE BARRIERS TO PATIENT EDUCATION AND PROVIDED STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE IT IN HOSPITALS AFFILIATED TO KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, 1391

Patient education is one of the most important principles in the care and
treatment process programs. Previous studies indicated that many patients are not given the proper
education. The aim of this study is to evaluate nurses' opinions about the patient’s education barriers,
and providing some strategies to improve it, in Kashan, in 2012.
Materials & Methods: This cross sectional study was done on 250 nurse and 20 nurse managers in
the hospitals affiliated to Kashan University of Medical Sciences. The data was collected by
questionnaire including demographic characteristics, barriers and facilitators to patient education.
Data were analyzed by descriptive and analytic (Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and chi-square)
statistics, and by a confidence interval of 95% by SPSS v16.0.
Results: The most important barriers for patient education are as follows: lack of proportionality
between the number of patients and number of nurses, Lack of time and excessive workload, nurses’
insufficient satisfaction with working shifts and hours, conducting unprofessional works, and
insufficient overcome.
A significant difference was found between conducting unprofessional works and position, so that
nurses mentioned it as a barrier to patient education, but nurse managers did not.
Conclusion: According to the results, in order to improve the quality of patient education, barriers
with higher frequency should be modified and adequate budget and equipment should be provided
educational needs for the nurses