gms | German Medical Science

Background and Purpose: The aim of the research is to determine the satisfaction degree of student communication with registered nurses, to explore possible demographic characteristics of students in assessing the quality level of communication, to identify the good aspects of communication and to give suggestions of improvement.

Methods: The study included 90 regular students of Undergraduate studies of nursing at the University of Rijeka's Faculty of Health Sciences. All three year grad students have completed a questionnaire made for this research, which is divided in two parts. The first part contains demographic data and the second part applies to nursing communication with students.

Research Focus: The collected data were statistically analyzed and displayed as absolute and percentage values, as well as arithmetic mean (X) and standard deviation (SD). In order to examine the differences in satisfaction with communication in dependence with socio-demographic categories, t-test for independent samples and one-way variance analysis were used. The level of statistical significance is set at p <0.05. The data were analyzed using SPSS 16 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 16.0, SPSS Inc., Chicago IL) statistical program.

Results: Results has shown that students are not satisfied with communication because it's not encouraging, suggesting emphasis on importance of education through formal and informal education of nursing staff need to be conducted.

Conclusions: Students are not satisfied with communication. The next step is to conduct research among nursing staff to get to know their vision of communication in order to create programs within formal education of nursing students and informal education of nursing staff that will lead to improved future communication.