The Relationship between the Role of Nurse Educator and Compliance with Control of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at the Pulmonary Polyclinic, Medika Mulia Hospital, Tuban

Abstract

Compliance with control of pulmonary tuberculosis patients to the pulmonary clinic is influenced by several factors, one of which is the hospital environment (doctors, nurses, midwives and other health teams). Nurses are professions that are very close to patients, one of the approaches used by nurses is the role of nurses as educators. The purpose of this study was to identify the compliance of Tuberculosis patients for re-control and to find out the relationship between the role of the Nurse Educator and the compliance of control of pulmonary tuberculosis patients to the Tuban Medika Mulia Hospital. The method used in this research is correlation analytic method with cross sectional research design. The population in this study involved 66 pulmonary TB patients in the pulmonary polyclinic of Medika Mulia Tuban Hospital, with the determination of the sample using a systematic random sampling method. Data was collected by using a questionnaire using rho sperm test data analysis. From the analysis results obtained data with a significance value of 0.003 (p <0.05), which means that there is a positive relationship between the role of the Educator nurse and the compliance of pulmonary tuberculosis patient control. Therefore, HI is accepted, namely that there is a close relationship between the role of the Educator nurse and the adherence to control of Pulmonary Tuberculosis patients at the Pulmonary Polyclinic of Medika Mulia Hospital, Tuban. The results of this study serve as input for nurses in the development of nursing knowledge, especially the role of nurses as educators at the Pulmonary Polyclinic at Medika Mulia Tuban Hospital in order to improve control compliance in pulmonary TB patients.
Keywords: pulmonary tuberculosis; patient compliance; nurse educator role