Effects of Self-leadership and Job Involvement on Clinical Competence in General Hospital Nurses

Abstract

Purpose: This study was performed to identify the effects of self-leadership and job involvement on clinical competence in general hospital nurses. Methods: The participants in this study were 443 staff nurses working in general hospitals and having more than 6 months of nursing experience. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Results: There were significant positive correlations between nurses' self-leadership and job involvement, and between nurses' self-leadership and clinical competence. In the multiple regression analysis, clinical career, type of department and self-leadership were significant predictors in explaining nurses' clinical competence and accounted for 28% of the variance in nurses' clinical competence. Conclusion: Study findings suggest that nurses' self-leadership is defined as having an important influence on nurses' clinical competence. In order to strengthen nurses' clinical competence, there is a need to develop education programs to increase nurses' self-leadership.

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“…Notably, our participants' scores were lower than those in previous studies using the Clinical Competence Instrument [17], which reported high mean scoresdspecifically, 4.10 and 4.18 [1,4]don competence in providing support to patients and competence in providing nursing care, respectively. These differences from previous studies [1,4] may be attributable to differences in the participants' characteristics. Specifically, participants in similar studies had higher levels of education and longer periods of work experience, which may have increased nurses' confidence in their clinical competence [22].…”

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