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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

DICIEMBRE 2005 N° 10 Volumen 8

Professional self-steam in the scope of geriatric care

Section: Cover story

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Pades Jiménez A, Ferrer Pérez VA. Autoestima profesional en el ámbito de los cuidados geriátricos. Metas de Enferm dic 2005/ene 2006; 8(10): 27-32

Authors

1Antonia Pades Jiménez, 2Victoria A Ferrer Pérez

Position

1Enfermera. Doctora en Psicología. Profesora Titular de Escuela de Enfermería de la Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB).2Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de las Islas Baleares.

Contact address

Dpto. de Enfermería y Fisioterapia. Ed. Guillém Cifre de Colonya. Carretera de Valldemossa, km 7,5. 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Illes Balears.

Contact email: antonia.pades@uib.es

Abstract

Objective: to determine the self-steam of a group of nursing professionals (nurse's aides and registered nurses) working in a public nursing home in our community.
Material and methods: a descriptive study was carried out on 26 nursing professionals working at the Llar de Calvía nursing home with 66 in-residents. The García Monge self-steam self-administered evaluation test was used to measure self-steam. This test measures three dimensions: I, the ideal one, I the real one, and I, the real one, through the eyes of others.
Results: twenty-five nursing professionals were studied. Higher scores were achieved for the "I, the ideal one". When the "I, the real one" was compared against the "I, the Ideal one" some statistically significant differences were found. The same occurred when the "I, the real one, through the eyes of others" was compared against "I, the ideal one".
Conclusions: the results point towards the existence of low levels of self-steam in these professionals that could be related to low levels of work-related satisfaction. Lastly, the need to intervene at different levels is addressed: pregraduate training, postgraduate training and training at a organizational level.

Keywords:

Self-steam; nursing professionals; geriatrics; gerontology; Self-steam; nursing professionals; geriatricsgerontology

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Autoestima profesional en el ámbito de los cuidados geriátricos