The Ability of Nurses in Clinical Practice, with a Career of 3 Years and More (The Second Report)
―The Ability of Clinical Nursing Practice in Each Age Classes―
2002 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 64-70
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2002 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 64-70
What kind of difference do we see in the nurse's clinical ability in each age? We have compared the factors composing the clinical ability in 6 classes with the ages of range in 5 years. The factors we have found through the analysis of late survey are as follows ; "training ability","ability to build up human relation and activate the office", "ability to cultivate oneself","ability to assess,judge, and to respond to the changes", "ability to adapt new systems", "cooperative ability with the patient, the family, and the team staffs","one's commitment in nursing", "the countermeasure and attitude toward malpractice prevention". We use the same subject, time, questionnaire, and the method as in the first report, and we used the Kruskal-Wallis test for analysis. We divided and showed the result with each factors in the radar chart, and compared with each age classes.
The following results came up to be the theme in education/support system.
1. There is a remarkable gap among each classes on the "ability to train" and the "cooperative ability". However there is no remarkable gap among the classes on the"ability to build up the human relation and activate the office", and "one's commitment in nursing".
2. The "ability to adapt new systems" shows high score below the age of 25, however the score decreases at once afterwards. There is almost no difference in the "commitment in nursing" among each groups after the groups of age of 26 to 30.
3. The "ability to adapt new systems" is the only remarkable high factor under the age of 25. It shows an average of low score in 5 factors in the group of ages 36 to 40, especially in the "ability to build up human relation and activate the office" and the"ability to assess,judge, and to respond to the changes".
4. The clinical ability of the group of ages 36 to 40 may be estimated as a reflection of one's own life stages. This period of time where the life itself has much more values, should be considered as the charging period for a nursing with a better quality throughout various experiences, for the fact that the following group shows high and well balanced score in the ability of clinical practice.
