Nursing Students`Evaluation of the Omaha Care System

Objective: The aim of the study is to determine the change in the level of care plan after the education of nursing students related to the Omaha classification system and to reveal their views on the Omaha care system. Materials and Methods: This research covers the qualitative part of a mixed-method intervention study. Students from the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Higher Education, Bursa Uludağ University were interviewed for the study between June and July 2019. The population of the study consisted of 153 students taking public health nursing courses at Bursa Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, and 52 students who agreed to participate in the study were sampled. Numbers, percentages, and a Wilcoxon sign test analysis were utilized to examine the data in the SPSS 23.0 program. To evaluate qualitative data, thematic analysis was employed. Results: The Omaha system total score insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.001);, problem classification score insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.001);, intervention scheme score insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0.016);, and problem assessment scale score insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0.006); of the students after the training were higher and statistically significant compared to their pre-training scores insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p=0.05);. 95.3% of the students evaluated the Omaha system as a difficult, complex, time-consuming, different, important, professional system that allows evaluation of each stage and questioning of causality; while 4.7% of the students evaluated it as a system that they could not understand at all. Conclusion: As a result of the study, students\` knowledge levels increased after the training.