Knowledge and practice of self-care nurse service Pediatrics, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, 2013

• Autores: Manturano Velásquez, Zenaida Doylitt, Cabanillas Chávez, María Teresa
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Unión
• Repositorio: Revista UPEU - Revista Científica de Ciencias de la Salud
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.revistas.upeu.edu.pe:article/148
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.upeu.edu.pe/index.php/RCCS/article/view/148
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: knowledge, practice, self-care and professional nursing; Conocimiento, práctica, autocuidado y profesional de Enfermería.

Objective: To determine the relationship between knowledge and practice self-care nurse in the pediatric wardof the National Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen. Methods: The research is correlational, descriptivequantitative, non experimental design, cross-section; the sample consisted of 45 nurses. Two differentquestionnaires adapted by the researcher, for the area of practical questions “Rating Scale Capacity AgencySelf-Care” developed by Ysenberg and Evers, translated and validated in Spanish by Esther was used was usedfor data collection Gallegos; and to the knowledge variable researcher developed a questionnaire, which wasvalidated by experts in the field. Results: The results obtained were that 42.2% of the sample is within the rangeof not knowing about self and displays an appropriate practice on it; likewise 26.7% is in the range of properunderstanding and practice self-care; there is also a 8.9% of the nurse who despite not knowing about the self hasadequate self-care practices. Applying statistical chi square test the relationship of the variables was significant p= 0.009, indicating that there is significant relationship between both variables. Conclusion: There is significantrelationship between knowledge and practice that the nurse has on yourself.