2013 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 83-91
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the educative effect of intervention using management training material in 508 staff nurses who work for 3 facilities. After educational intervention was provided to the nurses for 2 months using original management training material, an anonymous self-administered questionnaire of 53 items was carried out to survey hospital management awareness. 381 nurses responded the survey. Improvement of 14 items was significant at the 5% level in χ2 test. Awareness of the relationship between in-hospital infection control and cost saving showed the most significant improvement in 21.1% of nurses at the 1% level after educational intervention. Mann-Whitney U test revealed that, although nurses having a career in other hospitals were poorly aware of the relationship before educational intervention compared with those without a career, significant difference disappeared after intervention. The findings suggest that the awareness items improved by educational intervention were related to the daily nursing service and the reimbursement system.
