The Relationship between Perceived Social Supports and Missed Nursing Cares in Nurses

Missed nursing care seems to be controlled by factors such as social support. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between perceived social supports and missed nursing care in working nurses.

In this descriptive correlational study, 156 nurses working in teaching hospitals of Hamedan city were selected by randomized stratified sampling method. The data collection tools included: Checklist of demographic characteristics, Perceived Social Support Scale by Zimmet et al., and Missed Nursing Care Questionnaire by Kalish and Williams. Data analysis was done in SPSS 24 software with descriptive statistics and Pearson, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-wallis correlation coefficients. Also, the significance level of the tests was less than 0.05.

The results of study showed that 53.8% of the nurses were female and 82.7% have bachelor's degree, and the scores of perceived social support and missed nursing care were 45.35±5.74 and 6.92±46.32, respectively. Also, there is a negative and statistically significant relationship between these two variables (p<0.001, r= -0.329).

Considering the negative relationship between social support and missed nursing care, it is therefore suggested that managers increase the social support of nurses to reduce missed nursing care and improve the quality of nursing services.