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Medicine and Health Sciences

Aga Khan University

2018

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We Need Higher Education: Voice Of Nursing Administration From Kabul, Afghanistan, Wais M. Qarani, Rafat Jan, Khwaja M. I. Saeed, Laila Khymani Mar 2018

We Need Higher Education: Voice Of Nursing Administration From Kabul, Afghanistan, Wais M. Qarani, Rafat Jan, Khwaja M. I. Saeed, Laila Khymani

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Aim: To explore the educational profile of nursing managers and head nurses at public hospitals in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was employed.
Method: A self-administered pre-tested questionnaire was used to recruit 86 nursing managers and head nurses from 17 public hospitals in Kabul. SPSS version 19 was used to analyze and report the data through descriptive statistics.
Results: It was found that, none of the participant was prepared with higher education in nursing; rather they had only diploma in nursing; and 84.9% of them had completed their nursing diploma before 2002.; 11.6% of participants were currently …