2021 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 1_45-1_51
This study aimed to clarify the situation of the attendance at off-the-job training of nurses working in small and medium-sized facilities by workplace and career stage and to examine the factors affecting their decision on whether to attend or not, based on a 2013 survey.
Among the nurses who participated in the 2013 survey and were working at the facilities mentioned above at the time of the study, 758 answered the question on why it is difficult to attend the training and their important considerations in deciding whether to attend, using four response categories. Then, the participants were divided into two groups based on their responses to each item. A comparison of each group’ s proportion of those who attended off-the-job training was done using Fisher’ s exact test.
In terms of workplace, about 30% of the nurses who attended off-the-job training were working in clinics or long-term care insurance facilities. Thus, it is important to increase the participation of nurses working at these facilities in off-the-job training. In addition, all the nurses who attended off-the-job training, except skilled nurses, tended to place more importance on the time than those who did not attend. Therefore, the time of the training or introducing online training should be considered to increase the proportion of nurses who attend.
