This study aimed to clarify the effects of joint nursing management training in ‘A' prefectural hospi-tal, and an originally prepared questionnaire survey was conducted before, during, and after the training involving 33 participants in basic and 28 participants in advanced courses. Survey items were "levels of concern about nursing management", "self-efficacy", and "career (manager or specialist) aspirations", and they were measured using a 10-cm VAS. Written reasons for their response to each question and the "recognition of nursing management" were asked for in free-form text. Regarding analysis, quanti-tative survey data were compared using a one-way analysis of variance. Regarding qualitative data, meaningful contexts were categorized based on the similarity.
As the results, a significant difference was observed in "levels of concern about nursing manage-ment" between during and after the training (p<.05), and "self-efficacy" between before and during (P<.05) and between before and after the training (p<.01) among the participants in the basic course, showing the highest mean scores for each item after the training. Before the training, 60% of the partici-pants considered that nursing management should be provided by nurse managers, but 70% of the total participants recognized that every staff member should be involved in nursing management in their own fields. Furthermore, although 80% of the participants had [no confidence in their own ability], many of them started to have a feeling that [there is something they can do] by obtaining awareness in the lec-ture and group work or experiencing a success in practical training. No significant difference was observed in the advanced course
In this study, the effects of the training structure, in which the participants not only received the lec-ture but also experienced an altered awareness during the practical training, were confirmed. The results indicate the importance of determining a training theme after understanding their readiness for nursing management, needs to make an approach to enable them to perceive nursing management as their own issues, and needs to strengthen support systems for the participants.
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