Perception of nurses regarding their role in a hospital

Perception is a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. A motivated person is ready to act. How the motivated person actually acts is influenced by his or her perception of the situation. Perception depends not only upon the physical stimuli, but also on the stimuli's relation to the surroundings field and on the condition within the individual. People's behavior is based on their perception of what reality is, not on reality itself. Perception is understood as the act of seeing what is there to be seen which is influenced by the individual, the object and the situation. Perception is the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and interprets the information inputs to create a meaningful picture of the world. In simple terms, perception is why the same universe is viewed differently by different people. The perception is measured by instruments considering role efficacy. Researches show that persons with high role efficacy seem to experience less role stress, anxiety and work related tension The present study was undertaken with an aim of understanding and comparing the role efficacy of nurses at various levels in a famous hospital in Ludhiana, Punjab (India). All the 120 nurses and 35 head nurses in this hospital were studied for the role efficacy they experience. The outcome of this process is discussed in this paper.