Nurses' Fears and Professional Obligations Concerning Possible Human-to-Human Avian Flu
This survey aimed to illustrate factors that contribute to nurses' fear when faced with a possible human-to-human avian flu pandemic and their willingness to care for patients with avian flu in Taiwan. The participants were nursing students with a lesser nursing credential who were currently en...
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crsagepubl:10.1191/0969733006nej893oa 2024-09-09T19:31:06+00:00 Nurses' Fears and Professional Obligations Concerning Possible Human-to-Human Avian Flu Tzeng, Huey-Ming Yin, Chang-Yi 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0969733006nej893oa http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/0969733006nej893oa en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Nursing Ethics volume 13, issue 5, page 455-470 ISSN 0969-7330 1477-0989 journal-article 2006 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1191/0969733006nej893oa 2024-07-29T04:26:07Z This survey aimed to illustrate factors that contribute to nurses' fear when faced with a possible human-to-human avian flu pandemic and their willingness to care for patients with avian flu in Taiwan. The participants were nursing students with a lesser nursing credential who were currently enrolled in a bachelor degree program in a private university in southern Taiwan. Nearly 42% of the nurses did not think that, if there were an outbreak of avian flu, their working hospitals would have sufficient infection control measures and equipment to prevent nosocomial infection in their working environment. About 57% of the nurse participants indicated that they were willing to care for patients infected with avian influenza. Nurses' fear about an unknown infectious disease, such as the H5N1 influenza virus, could easily be heightened to levels above those occurring during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in Taiwan. Article in Journal/Newspaper Avian flu SAGE Publications Nursing Ethics 13 5 455 470 |
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This survey aimed to illustrate factors that contribute to nurses' fear when faced with a possible human-to-human avian flu pandemic and their willingness to care for patients with avian flu in Taiwan. The participants were nursing students with a lesser nursing credential who were currently enrolled in a bachelor degree program in a private university in southern Taiwan. Nearly 42% of the nurses did not think that, if there were an outbreak of avian flu, their working hospitals would have sufficient infection control measures and equipment to prevent nosocomial infection in their working environment. About 57% of the nurse participants indicated that they were willing to care for patients infected with avian influenza. Nurses' fear about an unknown infectious disease, such as the H5N1 influenza virus, could easily be heightened to levels above those occurring during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in Taiwan. |
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