Nursing Administrators’ Competency Which Demonstrated in Order to Correspond to the Business Environment Change that Depends on the PFI Introduction.
2009 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 31-40
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2009 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 31-40
Aim
To clarify the competency of nursing administrators who demonstrate as action required in the medical institution which introduced the Private Financial Initiative (PFI) and accomplished business environment change.
Methods
The duration of research was October 2006~March 2007. Data was collected for one director of hospital, secretary general, and eight nurse administrators (top-level: one director of nursing, two subdirector of nursing, middle-level: three nurse managers, lower-level: two chief managers) from a hospital demonstrated by Private Financial Initiative (PFI) in Japan through the semi-structured interviews which referring to the Spencer's behavior event interview method.
The results of interviews regarding behavior to overcome the business environment change such as PFI were analyzed in order to classify the categories and develop the competency dictionary. After that nursing administrator's competency model was check in group discussion in order to confirm the result.
Result
1)The common essential competency of nursing administrators was same as Spencer's competency. "flexibility and situation adaptation" and "negotiation power and explanation capability" are not only included in the Spencer's competency, but also important competency to deal with the business environment change such as PFI
2)Each nursing administrators' level has different essential competency as PFI was introducing. The top level requests the "gathering information" and "conceptual thinking". The middle level needs "achievement", "analytical thinking", and "flexibility and situation adaptation". The lower level emphasized the essential competency as "achievement", "human development", "gathering information", and "flexibility and situation adaptation".
Conclusion
The essential nursing administrators' competency in order to overcome the business environment change such as PFI was identified. Furthermore, each level of nursing administrators' competency has different important competency. This result may put to practical use for the hospitals which are going to introducing the PFI through electing the nursing administrators possessing of competency we clarified and human development.
