Nurses' knowledge about the implementation of medical tourism in Hospitals

Medical tourism can be defined as a trip made by a person abroad for the purpose of obtaining health care, either in the form of general check-ups, medical treatment, or medical rehabilitation (Alwi et al., 2022). Knowledge of health workers in this case, especially nurses related to medical tourism is very important as one of the initial capital in the successful implementation of medical tourism activities in Bali. This study is to determine the knowledge of nurses as health professionals in supporting medical tourism services at hospitals in Bali. The design of this study is descriptive cross sectional. The population in this study were nurses who worked at Bali Mandara Regional General Hospital, Mangusada Badung Regional General Hospital and Siloam Bali Hospital within 4 months (June-September 2023). The sampling technique in this study was accidental sampling. The number of respondents in this study was 80 people. Data collection using a questionnaire prepared by the researcher. The data that has been collected is analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS for Windows, Release 23.0). The data analyzed included descriptive analysis (mean, standard deviation, frequency, percetange and range). The majority of respondents in this study showed an average age of 30 years, 65 people (81.3%) were female and had a Bachelor of Nursing Education background of 57 people (71.3%). Most of the respondents 58 (72.5%) had good knowledge and only 22 (27.5%) had sufficient knowledge about the implementation of medical tourism in hospitals. It is hoped that in the future health workers and hospitals are ready to implement medical tourism services