Obstacles of Nursing Process Application from Perspective of the Nursing Instructor and Nursing Students in Zanjan Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

Nursing process is the core of nursing care. Application of nursing process leads to achieve comprehensive and scientific care of patients. Despite teaching of nursing process in nursing faculties, this systematic method is not used in Iran. So, this study was performed to detect the nursing instructors’ and nursing students’ perspective toward the obstacles of nursing process in Zanjan Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. This study is a cross-sectional descriptive study in which 67 persons (19 instructors and 48 nursing students) participated in the study according to census. The data was gathered using questionnaire and was analyzed by SPSS 16. The most important individual and management barriers from the perspective of instructors were lack of sufficient information about concept of the nursing process (89.5%), and inadequate knowledge about the nursing process in intensive care units (94.7%) respectively. Moreover the most important individual and management barriers from the perspective of nursing students were inadequate knowledge about the nursing process (81.3%), lack of authority support for implementation of the nursing process (87.5%) respectively. There was significant difference in 4 items of obstacles of nursing process between instructors and nursing students (P< 0.05). According to the findings, authorities must help promote the health care by employing sufficient nurses, educating the students and providing necessary context for application of nursing process.