Ran Lee | 2 Articles |
Purpose
This study aimed to develop a strength coaching program and verify its effects on positive psychological capital, coaching leadership, and organizational commitment for front-line nurse managers. Methods: The participants were first-line nursing managers working in two general hospitals, and a total of 25 participants comprised the experimental (n=12) and control (n=13) groups. The strength coaching program was implemented for 6 weeks from November 13 to December 18, 2017, and the intervention group received the strength coaching program for 2 h, once a week. Data were collected pre, post, and after (4 weeks later), and analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance using the SAS 9.4 program. Results: The strength coaching program was developed as a process of understanding, reflecting, and utilizing the concepts and characteristics of positive psychology and strengths, and applied to nursing managers, but it did not affect their positive psychological capital, coaching leadership, and organizational commitment. Conclusion: The results of this study were not significant, but the study is meaningful in that the strength coaching program was developed and applied to front-line nursing managers, and various methodological aspects to be considered in future studies were presented. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nursing practice environment, resilience, job stress, communication skills, and managerial competence of frontline nurse managers and identify factors influencing their managerial competence. METHODS A descriptive research was carried out with 148 frontline nurse managers in six general hospitals. From August 16 to October 7, 2016 data were collected using a questionnaire. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, independent t-test, One-way ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression using IBM SPSS/WIN 22.0. RESULTS Managerial competence of frontline nurse managers was positively correlated with nursing practice environment (r=.41 p < .001), resilience (r=.45, p < .001), communication skills (r=.38, p < .001) and was negatively correlated with job stress (r=−.27, p < .001). The factors influencing managerial competence were nursing practice environment (β=.29, p=.002) and resilience (β=.28, p=.007) in that order. The input variables explained 30.8% of managerial competence. CONCLUSION The results suggest that a policy guideline is needed to enhance managerial competence of frontline nurse managers. The policy guideline should include achieving an adequate level of nurse staffing to improve the nursing practice environment and providing frontline nurse managers with educational support and administrative assistance to increase their resilience. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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