Journal Title: Nursing Care Competencies and Work Behavior of Staff nurses in Public and Private Hospitals in Rinconada

Author: Manuel O. Arines, MAN Yr: 2003 Conclusion: A variation in perception, though not so glaring, is noted in the staff nurses assessment of their nursing care competencies, with the staff nurses from public hospitals claiming to be excellent in planning and very satisfactory in assessment, implementation and evaluation, while the staff nurses from private hospitals believe that they are excellent in assessment, implementation and evaluation and very satisfactory in planning. There is significant relationship between the staff nurses perception of their competency in assessment and implementation, but relationship is significant in planning and evaluation. Likewise, the two groups of nurses possess similar work behavior characterized by professionalism and commitment to their mission as care givers. Recommendation: To minimize the discrepancy in the perception of nursing care competencies, the staff nurses must undergo in-house trainings on subjects related to their jobs as care givers. In this case, the human resource officer of each hospital must involve the nurses in planning and implementation of these training. Title: Peri-operative nursing care for cataract surgery patients at Bicol medical center, Naga city Author: Maricel P. Velasquez, MAN Yr: 2003 Quality of nursing care during the pre-operative, intraoperative and post-operative phases should be consciously maintained and emotional/mental needs of patients addressed together with the physical needs through the use of perioperative nursing care checklist formulated by the researcher Title: Peri operative care management Author: Doris S. Natividad Yr: 2003

Conclusions: 1. Nurses perceive themselves as highly competent, gentle and sensitive to the needs of the patients when managing the educative-supportive, whollycompensatory and partly-compensatory care. Surgical patients consider management of their nurses at par. 2. Length of service affects the level of perioperative management along partly compensatory care. 3. Area of confinement determines the level of perioperative management along wholly-compensatory care and partly-compensatory care. 4. There is wide incongruence between the perceptions of nurses and patients as to the level of perioperative management. How nurses describe themselves as care managers can not really be seen, felt, or experienced by their patients. Title: Level of satisfaction of patient on care rendered by watchers Author: Floresca S. Agno, Raquel W. Gaumena, Imelda T. Masing, Florence A, Mendoza, Percyphone F. Masing Yr: 2003 The staff nurses should maintain the caring behavior given along three aspects of care toward patients, and that they should be more communicative and available to the spiritual care needs of male and female patients. They should also consider the profile of patients such as age, gender, educational attainment and relationship to the patient in rendering care. Title: perceived performance of staff nurse of the bachelor of science in nursing curriculum in patient care Author: Julita Toralba Jimenez Mangaoang Their skill, knowledge and attitudes along competency in caring, decisionmaking, moral responsibility/accountability assertiveness and interpersonal relations can be refined through: attendance to seminars or training and workshops, continuing education through post graduate studies and regular assessment of their own strengths and weaknesses along each aspect in patient care and effecting changes within themselves. Thesis Title: Holistic nursing care rendered to medical-surgical patients Author: Sr. Klara Cha Young ME

Conclusions: Holistic nursing care was rendered by nurses to medical-surgical patients. Religion and age of nurses affect their perceptions of the extent of psychological care; civil status, religion and age do not affect their perceptions of the extent of physical and spiritual care. Medical-surgical condition and length of confinement of patients affect their perceptions of the extent of the three dimensions of care received; religion does not affect their perception of the extent of physical and psychosocial care. Recommendations: It is recommended that nurses continues rendering holistic nursing care with patients along three dimensions of physical, psycho-social, and spiritual care. Nurses should regularly evaluate the care provided in meeting the need of patients, and develop a standardized too/instrument to objectively measure each dimension of holistic nursing care more comprehensively. Thesis Title: The Correlation between holistic care and nurses attitudes towards early recovery of post operative patients confined at eastern visayas regional medical center, Tacloban City: Basis for improved health services Author: Teresitas Villas Bereuguer Implications: Health Service: Holistic care and nurses attitudes are significant factors in enhancing post-operative recovery of patients and because of this, nursing service should give emphasis on the training of nurses. Holistic care and nurses attitude are vital in the care of pre surgical patients while the meaningful elements of the outcome of this care are patients symptomatic relief, well being and satisfaction. As can be gleaned from the results of the study, effective post-operative management enhances post-operative recovery. It relies on the nurse competencies from the biomedical, behavioral and nursing sciences to render this care safely and comprehensively. It is important that nurses understand the holistic view of nursing so that they can maximize their contributions in the delivery of health care. The totality of his person should be given priority. Nurses in the major resources of his care, can anticipate what the patient needs, how these needs are met and why. The knowledge that the nurses gain enable them to become skilled in the nursing care that they give.