Abstract

Introduction: Family nurses play an important role in promoting the health of families. According to the focus on increasing the health promotion by nurses, their role as health determinants is complicated and the knowledge and experience of several disciplines in promoting health is concealed in the performance of nursing in families.

Materials and Methods: This study is a descriptive research in four selected hospitals of Iran University of Medical Sciences. For this purpose 600 nurses, physicians and administrators were selected and using simple random sampling method. Data collection tool was a two-part questionnaire including demographic information and health personnel's view on family nursing design then validity and reliability of the questionnaire were done. The data were analyzed by SPSS 24 software.

Results: The results showed that the majority of the research samples were in the three groups of physicians (97.9%), nurses (94.8%), and managers and heads of hospitals (100%) agreed with family nurse's plan.

Conclusion: Considering the multiple responsibilities of the family nurse, this plan should be implemented.

Keywords: Viewpoints; Health Personnel; Family Nurse Plan

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Citation: Soltani Fahimeh and Sahbaeiroy Faezeh. “The Study of Health’s Personnel View on Implementation of the Family Nursing Plan". Acta Scientific Pharmaceutical Sciences 4.12 (2020): 30-35.

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