抄録
This paper discussed on the limitation of supervising ability of the assistant nursing director of the ward who is one of the members of the nursing service department at the university hospitals in Japan. This study is based on the survey of inquiry which we have performed regarding to the directors (452 cases) and assistant directors (568 cases) on the responsibility for ward nursing operation of which we established the classification by our researches, on 46 university hospitals (65% of all Japanese univ. hospitals) in 1981.
1) The nursing directors might be leaving some responsibility for the management of wards to the assistant directors who belonged to them, and the assistant directors had firmer recognization to be mandatory competence of the managemental components than what the director had leaved it.
2) The common classificational components to be recognized empowering on the management of ward nursing between the directors and assistant director were the operation for the consultation or leadership on patient care, the custodial or adjustment of medicines at the ward, and to make the program of education for student nurses. The other components were scarcely empowered.
