2009 Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 31-40
This research clarified the premise that nurse's skills are improved by OJT from senior nurses by using the example of nurse's skills and their conveyance in a general hospital ward.
First, nurse's skills were divided into "Direct nursing skills to patients and their families" and "Nursing support skills," and the various skills and their level examined. Amongst "Nursing support skills," the skills were classified into different types, and attention was paid to "educational" skills and "reporting, communication, and information-sharing" skills.
Data were collected by observation of interactions within the Nursing station and based on interviews.
As a result, the level of "educational" skills and "reporting, communication, and information-sharing" skills were verified by examples.
Furthermore, the conveyance of a nurse's skill occurred by interactions between nurses, and it became clear that a nurse improved her skills by these interactions between nurses.
From now on, for promotion of development of nurse's skills, it is important to re-appreciate the process of skill conveyance by interactions between nurses.