Explicating the practices of nurses on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis care and treatment among selected healthcare institutions in Bataan [manuscript] / Gina De Guzman Tantiangco.

The researcher used a quantitative - descriptive-comparative in nature. This study explicated the practices of nurses on multi-drug tuberculosis care and treatment among selected healthcare institutions in Bataan. Findings from this study enhanced nursing care teaching plan. It was revealed that the practices of nurses on MDR-TB care and treatment from public hospitals were highly evident with mean value of 3.31 and standard deviation of .298 while those from rural health units are evident with mean value of 3.22 and standard deviation with .278 because the Department of Health has mandated all healthcare institutions to strongly advocate TB care. Likewise, there were still need to sustain to meet the highest potential of care in terms of patient holding, assessment which mutually agreed upon. Likewise, evaluation was perceived need to sustain by both groups. It was shown that the practices of nurses on Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis Care and Treatment between the perceptions of the two groups were found significant only to case finding, assessment and evaluation. The t-value and significance value of case finding is (t=2.757;p<.006), patient holding is (t=.334;p>.742), assessment (t= 2.34;p<.005), planning is (t=4.11;p>.686), implementation is (t=8.25;p>.420) and evaluation is (t=4.03;p<.001). Since the significance value is found out to be below the margin of error of 0.05, the researcher rejected the null hypothesis which stated that there were significant difference in practices of nurses on multi-drug tuberculosis care and treatment when perceptions of two groups were tested. This implies that the case finding, assessment and evaluation are cyclical routine of care and vary according to the needs of the clients. vii Therefore, those who works in rural health units are more evident in terms of their practice on multi-drug resistant TB care and treatment. This pertains to the interventions to be made on case finding, assessment and evaluation as indicators for the improvement of MDR-TB Care and Treatment. With this, nurses would be able to deliver better instructions to clients with MDR-TB. Also, this could serve as a reference point material on how nurses could prioritize the needs of their client. Practices of nurses on Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Care and Treatment as strongly evident as perceived by nurses from the hospitals and evident by nurses from the Rural Health Units in Bataan. Likewise, there is a need to sustain the practices in terms of assessment and evaluation. The perception between the two groups, nurses from hospitals and nurses from Rural health unites are significantly different in terms of case finding, assessment and evaluation. Thus, case finding, assessment and evaluation could differ their extent of practices on MDR-TB care and treatment. The enhanced nursing care teaching plan has been proposed.