Professional Values in Guiding Professional Behavior of Nurses: A Phenomenological Study

Introduction: Nurses must have knowledge and awareness concerning professional values as standards to provide safe and high-quality care. Objective: The study aimed to explore the professional’s value in directing nurses’ behavior. Method: A qualitative study design with a phenomenology approach was applied in this study. We involved ten nurses with ten years of working experience and acting as role models in nurse managers. The data analysis used the Colaizzi method. We found the professional nursing values among nurses, including human dignity, integrity, professional practice, altruism, and compassion. Dimensions that underlying the professional values are knowledge, skill, and attitude. Results: The following four themes reflected how to apply nurses value: 1) Competence in facing challenges; 2 Nurses provided services based on knowledge and skills, a sense of help and compassion for love as a form of worship and commitment to the profession; 3) feeling satisfied in undergoing the nurse profession; 4) expectations of professional development. Professional nurses have a positive attitude and a hope for professional development. Conclusion: The hospital could improve nursing education and research by providing evidence-based practices for self-development. Recommendation: Nurse managers also can provide services based on science, skills, and attitudes as a form of worship and commitment to the profession, becoming a role model for the nurse-led

Gestational Age, Exclusive Breastfeeding, Attitude Complementary Foods Associated with Stunting Infants

Introduction : Many factors influence the occurrence of stunting in toddlers, but the most important factor influencing the incidence of stunting comes from the mother. Objective: This study aims to analyze the relationship between gestational age of infants, exclusive breastfeeding and mother's attitude in giving complementary foods with the incidence of stunting in infants aged 6-24 months. Method: The research design is Cross Sectional. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling involving 125 mothers of infants aged 6-24 months. Result: The results found that gestational age (p value = 0.016), exclusive breastfeeding (p value = 0.027) and complementary feeding (p value = 0.00) have positive correlation with attitude and complementary feeding. The babies born with a small gestational age are at risk of stunting. Exclusive breastfeeding for infants aged 0-6 months followed by a positive mother's attitude in preparing and providing quality complementary foods can reduce the risk of babies experiencing stunting, so nurses' efforts are needed to provide health education to mothers to optimize their role in infant care and nutrition. Recommendation: Health workers, both nurses and midwives, should increase their role in providing health education to mothers with babies aged 6-24 months about the importance of Antenatal Care, health education about the benefits of breastfeeding and forming of breastfeeding motivators and providing health education to mothers under five how to arrange a supplementary food menu for toddlers

Computed Tomography (CBCT) Services by Product Quality, Customer Trust and Customer Loyalty: A Linear Regression

Introduction: In a hospital service, there must be a superior service that can be used as a weapon in capturing patients in carrying out treatment through doctor referrals, in this case the presence of CBCT services. Word of Mouth (WOM) occurs when customers talk to others about their opinion about a particular brand, product, service or company to others. There are several factors that are believed to increase the desire of a referring dentist to do word of mouth, including the quality of the CBCT product itself, loyalty and the level of trust of a dentist as a consumer. Objective: The study aimed to examine the relationship between product quality, customer trust, and customer loyalty with word of mouth on CBCT services. Method: The descriptive study was undergone with cross-sectional approach. A total of 134 dentists as were selected using the systematic random sampling. The linear regression was used to analyze the data to test between the dependent and independent variables. Results: The findings showed that there are significantly associated between the product quality, customer trust, and customer loyalty to word of mouth of customer for using the CBCT services. Recommendation: Further researchers need to develop path analysis or SEM methods to predict the word of mouth of customer for using the CBCT services

Warm Compress on Lowering Body Temperature Among Hyperthermia Patients: A Literature Review

Hyperthermia increased the core human body temperature above normal 36.7-37.5 °C, usually caused by infection, resulting in fever, and was the most common manifestation. One of the efforts that could be done to overcome the symptoms of hyperthermia was the application of warm compresses to the frontal, axillary, and dorsalis pedis. The study aimed to describe body temperature changes in hyperthermic patients after warm compress was applied. This study used a descriptive design with a literature review approach. Twelve articles were included in this review by six journal databases: PubMed, JSTOR, Wiley Online Library, Sage Journal, Taylor and Francis Online, and Google Scholar. The selection was carried out by assessing articles that met the inclusion criteria, including the publication range for 2008-2021, English and Indonesian languages ??, and open access to full-text pdf. The critical assessment was carried out by using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programmed instrument. The review results showed that the warm compress method had a positive effect in lowering body temperature in the nursing process in patients with hyperthermia. Based on the literature from the reviewed articles, it could be concluded that a warm compress intervention needed to be given to hyperthermic patients to lower the patient's body temperature whether they were undergoing treatment or not

Range of Motion Exercise to Improve Muscle Strength among Stroke Patients: A Literature Review

Stroke was a disturbance in part or all brain function caused by abnormal blood flow to the brain, disrupting bodily functions such as muscle weakness. One of the efforts that could be done to overcome muscle weakness in stroke patients was the Range Of Motion (ROM) exercise which could be done independently or assisted by health workers. The purpose of this literature review was to identify the effect of range of motion (ROM) exercise in increasing muscle strength in stroke patients. This study used a descriptive method with a literature review approach. The search strategy used six international journal databases: PubMed, JSTOR, Wiley Online Library, Sage Journal, ScienceDirect, and Taylor & Francis Online. In addition, a search was conducted on one national journal database, namely Google Scholar. The selection was conducted by assessing articles that met the inclusion criteria, such as publication range from 2005-2021, in English, Indonesian, and other languages that can be translated and opened full access text. After the selection process, nine articles that met the inclusion criteria were obtained, with 197 respondents assigned randomly and grouped into 58 control groups, 55 intervention groups, 84 combined groups. The results showed that the ROM exercise method positively affected increasing muscle strength in stroke patients. Based on these results, it could be concluded that this nurse's independent intervention needed to be carried out in stroke patients to increase muscle strength

Effect of Health Education on Improving the Knowledge among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the Prevention of Diabetic Ulcer in Regional Hospital of Tidore Island

International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reported that the number of diabetes mellitus patients worldwide increases every year. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease due to damage to the pancreas in producing enough insulin and characterized by impaired metabolism of fats, increased blood sugar, carbohydrates and protein both absolutely and relatively. Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are among the most common complications in diabetic patients and are associated with high mortality, morbidity, and health costs. This study was to determine the effect of health education on knowledge improvement about diabetic ulcers in the regional hospital of Tidore Islands. This research is a quasi-experimental type with a pretest-posttest without a control group design. The research sample consisted of 30 respondents who met the inclusion criteria. Data were analyzed using a paired test and processed with statistic version 21. Based on the research results, there was an improved knowledge in pre and post-health education counseling, where the average score before health education counseling was 11.6. After health counseling, the average value was 15.0. The results showed the effect of knowledge in the prevention of diabetic ulcers with a p-value =0,000. Health education is an effort to improve patient's ability to prevent diabetic foot ulcers that have been proven in several scientific studies. Health education methods provide additional information so that patients who previously wondered about their disease can directly ask health workers. Health education affects the knowledge improvement of Diabetes Mellitus patients in the Regional hospital of Tidore Islands

Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Literature Review

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease associated with insulin deficiency and the inability of the pancreas to produce enough insulin. WHO predicts that the number of people with type II diabetes mellitus in Indonesia will increase to 12 million in 2030. The study aimed to describe Physical Activity Interventions in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Using the online journal database that provides free articles and journals from 2010 -2020 in PDF form such as: Scinapse, Pubmed, ProQuest, MDPI and Google Scholar using the keywords "Physical Activity", “Effectiveness of Physical Activity". Physical activity intervention can improve the condition of patient with Diabetes mellitus if routinely done. Intake of physical activity intervention can control HbA1c levels and blood sugar, body weight and other glycemic control. Physical activity intervention is able to improve the condition of Diabetes Mellitus patients

Social and Cultural Impact during an Emerging Infectious Covid-19 Outbreak: A Review Study

A novel coronavirus (Covid-19) was a global pandemic worldwide. This review aimed to explore and describe the Covid-19 outbreak's impact on socio and culture during a pandemic situation. Electronic databases from different sources were included to extract the relevant articles. Initially, terms to retrieve related studies were “social impact," “cultural impact," Covid-19”. The results showed that five key issues on socio and cultural during pandemic situation including 1) social vulnerability and community resilience; 2) stigma, prejudice, and discrimination; 3) social avoidance, rejection, and denials of healthcare providers; 4) family dynamics: domestic violence; and 5) severe projection of the poverty rate. The expected benefit of this study to explain the valuable information regarding socio and cultural impact

Educational Intervention on Self Efficacy among Postoperative Fracture: A Literature Review

Fracture is a disruption of the normal discontinuity of bone and causes the surrounding tissue to be disrupted. Management of fractures is generally divided into recognition, reduction, retention, and rehabilitation. Exercises in the postoperative fracture patient rehabilitation program require patience and take a long time to achieve maximum cure. Nurses' therapeutic action in helping patients do rehabilitation exercises is by increasing the patient's self-efficacy to be independent in carrying out activities. Efforts to increase self-efficacy can be made through nursing interventions. This literature review aimed to explore the appropriate interventions on improving self-efficacy among postoperative fracture patients. Methods: This study was obtained from 4 databases, namely EBSCO, Key clinical, Willey, and Proquest, using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results obtained. Decreased self-efficacy can occur in cases that require long action both for the healing process and chronic disease and when taking actions to maintain health, including post-surgery fractures. In conclusion, educational media will make it easier to provide interventions in increasing self-efficacy by paying attention to the factors that affect self-efficacy, namely master experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and emotional Arousal. The recommendation is that patients need support for adjusting the use of tools in providing education, providing logistics from samples in the application of education through technology media and to parents

Patient Satisfaction of Service and Availability of Medical and Drugs among Inpatient Hospital West Sulawesi

This study discusses how patient satisfaction with services and availability of medical facilities and medicines in the inpatient unit of the West Sulawesi Provincial Hospital, in terms of indicators of completeness of medical equipment and laboratory services so that they do not need to be sent to other hospitals, indicators of the availability of medicines in hospital pharmacy, indicator of length of service time at hospital dispensary and indicator of service for hospital dispensary officers. The method used in this research is descriptive method with quantitative approach. The population in this study were 2874 patients treated at the West Sulawesi Provincial Hospital. The sample in this study using accidental sampling technique, so that samples of this study amounted to 97 people. Data collection techniques used in this study questionnaires, interviews, review of documents and documentation. Data analysis using frequency distribution tables and percentage analysis. The results showed that the percentage of patient satisfaction with the service and availability of medical facilities and medicines in the inpatient unit of the West Sulawesi Provincial Hospital in terms of indicators of completeness of medical equipment and laboratory services, so there was no need to be sent to other hospitals by 66.2%, indicator the availability of medicines in hospital dispensaries was 67.4%, the indicator of length of service time at hospital dispensaries was 76.1% and the indicator of service for hospital dispensaries was 75.7%. Dan hasil perhitungan persentase seluruh item indikator diperoleh nilai rata-rata skor sebesar 71,3%. Secara keseluruhan pelayanan dan ketersediaan sarana medis dan obat-obatan di unit rawat inap RSUD Provinsi Sulawesi Barat sudah dapat memenuhi harapan pasien. And the results of calculation of the percentage indicator of all items obtained average value score of 71.3%. Overall the service and the availability of medical facilities and medicines in the hospital inpatient units of West Sulawesi province has been able to meet the expectations of patients.