Research Topic The Study of Socio Cultural Challenges Face by Nurses

The document discusses a research study on the socio-cultural challenges faced by nurses in Pakistan. It aims to explore how social and cultural factors shape nurses' professional image and the difficulties they face. The study will qualitatively examine issues related to religion, media portrayal, gender, and marriage faced by nurses through interviews with 12 nurses from public hospitals in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. The findings hope to provide recommendations for improving the nursing profession in Pakistan by better understanding the socio-cultural challenges experienced by nurses.

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Research Topic The Study of Socio Cultural Challenges Face by Nurses

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RESEARCH TOPIC

THE STUDY OF SOCIO

CULTURAL CHALLENGES
FACE BY NURSES
BACKGROUND
What is Social Culture Means
•Social cultural means common traditions, habits,
pattern of living and beliefs present in a
population that lives in one area. These social
and cultural dimensions are silently undermining
and damaging the status and rights of woman at
every level
NURSING
Nursing encompasses
autonomous and
collaborative care of
individuals of all
ages, families, groups
and communities,
sick or well and in all
settings.
RATIONAL
The Nursing Profession in Pakistan
 Globally nursing not attract many females
as carrier in Pakistan.
 Pakistan society perceives nursing as a
inferior profession.
 Nursing ranks much lower in status than
medicine.
RATIONAL CONT….
 The shortage of nurses has been a continue
challenge for the nursing profession in many
countries including Pakistan.
 The WHO (2004) statistics show that Pakistan
has 4.6 nurses and 6.9 physicians per 10000
population.
 The nurse to patient ratio is as low 1:50
 There is a shortage of 1 million nurses in
country. (Dawn review 2019)
RATIONAL CONT…
Shortage
 The shortage is associated with multiple
social cultural factors, that include low
status and bed image of the profession.
 People’s perception of nursing is strongly
influenced by nurses availability and the
quality of nursing care that people receive.
AIM OF THE STUDY
To Explore the
Socio cultural
challenges face
by nurses while
creating their
professional image
. Negative
Negative
connotation
connotation
for crossing
for crossing
social
social
boundaries
boundaries

Inappropriate
Inappropriate
portrayals in
portrayals in
the media,
the media,
Gender
Gender
Segregated
Segregated
profession
profession

Interacting
Interacting
touching
touching
male
male
clients
clients
OBJECTIVES
OF THE STUDY
To explore social and cultural challenges
faced by nurses
To evaluate the factors that shapes the
image of nursing profession.
To develop the recommendation for
improving nursing profession.
RRESRESEARCH QUESTION
The study will answer the
following research question.

What are the social and

cultural challenges faced by
staff nurses while creating
their professional image?
DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
Three THQ public sector hospitals within
the regional context of Sargodha (Punjab)
Pakistan.
An only female staff nurse, head nurses,
midwifes.
Only the social and cultural issues will
be considered for the purpose of the
research.
TYPE OF RESEARCH STUDY

 A qualitative research approach will

be conduct, to explore the nursing
social and cultural challenges.
 . Sampling Technique
Snow ball purposive sampling
technique
METHODOLOGY
Study Population
 Head nurses, Charge nurses, Midwife
Nurses of public sectors THQ Hospitals
Sargodha.
 The study will be conducted in limited
time of 18 weeks after approval of
synopsis.
METHODOLOGY CONT…
Sample Size
Nurses No of Participants Average Years of
Experience

Head Nurses 04 22Years

Staff Nurses 04 10 Years

Midwifes 04 08Years
METHODOLOGY CON…
Inclusion Criteria
1.Head Nurses
2. Staff Nurses
3. Midwife Nurses
Exclusive Criteria
Doctors and other all paramedical staff
INSTRUMENT FOR THE STUDY
 Questioner will be used as a research tools for
collecting data from the respondents.
 Questioner will be used to collect their
information regarding the following variables.
1. Issues from a religious perspective
2. Media portrayals and gender issues
3. Issues from a marriage settlement
PREPARATION OF THE
RESEARCH TOOL
Preparation of the questioner for
interview will be done by
searching different books and
related materials and with experts
discussion in the fields and with
the consultation of the supervisor.
PILOT TESTING
 Pilot testing will be done before the
conduct of research on nurses of nearest
public sectors hospital, in order to
determine the validity of the questioners.
 The question will be further simplified
and reorganized.
 Reliability of the questioner will be
checked.
ETHICAL
CONSIDERATIONS
Study will be started after approval
of synopsis from IRB. Informed
written consent will be obtained
from every participant and data so
collected will be kept confidential.