Khorashadizade F, Haghighi R, Izadfar A, Javanvash Z, Farahdel M, Gholami A, et al . Assessment of Nurses' Clinical Competency in Imam Hasan Hospital, Bojnurd, Iran. North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences 2019; 11 (2) :66-72
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http://journal.nkums.ac.ir/article-1-1825-en.html
Fateme Khorashadizade1

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Ramin Haghighi2

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Alireza Izadfar3

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Zahra Javanvash4

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Mahdi Farahdel5

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Ali Gholami6

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Javad Ghadimi7

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Azam Zibaei8

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Meysam Latifi6

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Hadi Lotfy6

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Mitra Shojaie6

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Sajjad Rahimi6

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Salar Poorbarat *9
1- Assistant Professor, Nursing department, Nursing and Midwifery School, North Khorasan University of Medical sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
2- Department of Urology of Imam Hassan Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
3- Department of Medical Record, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
4- MSc in Geriatric Nursing, Imam Hassan Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
5- MSc, Student in Critical Care Nursing, Imam Hassan Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
6- Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing, Imam Hassan Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
7- Department of Finance Responsible, Imam Hassan Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
8- MSc in Community Health Nursing, Imam Hassan Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
9- BSc Student in Nursing, Student Research Committee, Bojnurd Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Bojnurd, Iran , salarpoorbarat98@gmail.com
Abstract: (5114 Views)
Introduction: Nursing is as a clinical profession that is improving day to day. One of the important problem at hospitals is that nursing management are not aware of the competency of new entrance nurses. So, this study was done to assess competency of new nurses Emam Hasan hospital at Bojnurd.
Methods: This study was the first stage of an action research. Nurses with under 10 working years were selected by census sampling. Task- based checklists based on profession nursing task, 13 clinical competencies were chosen for OSCE stations with Checklists for every competency. Content validity and inter-rater reliability were done. The data was analysis with Spss20 and doing descriptive (Frequency, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson Correlation Coefficient), and considering levels of significance (P < 0.05). Results: This study showed that clinical competency was in moderate level. It was significant relationship between clinical competency and sex, the college in which they have graduated while there are any significant relationship between clinical ward.
Conclusions: The program in order to enhancing clinical competency should be done for new nurses to figuring out good quality of delivery nursing care. Also, it's needed to assess periodically clinical competency in nurses with any working year and wards. Applying retraining program systematically and according to nurses' needs can improve nurses' clinical competency and clinical practices.
Type of Study:
Orginal Research |
Subject:
Basic Sciences Received: 2018/06/27 | Accepted: 2019/02/19 | Published: 2019/10/5