Abstract
Introduction: Clinical competency and knowledge of the effective factors are of critical importance in nursing. Competency, self-esteem, and self-knowledge are achievable through professional identity. Employees’ participation in and attachment to their professional role is contingent considerably upon their professional identity. In light of this, the present study is aimed at determining correlation between professional identity and clinical competence of the nurses working in psychiatric wards of the hospitals affiliated with Tehran-based medical sciences universities. Methodology: This correlative study was conducted on 125 nurses working in psychiatric wards of Tehran-based hospitals affiliated with medical sciences universities. Data gathering tool of the study was a researcher-designed questionnaire to collect demographic, clinical competency, and professional identity data of the participants. For data analyzing, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 18 was used. Findings: The results showed 91.2% of the participants evaluated their professional identity at good (47.2%) and very good (44%) levels; and 78.2% evaluated their clinical competency at very good level. The results also indicated positive and significant relationship between professional identity and clinical competency(r = 0.32, p = 0.001). In addition, none of the demographical variables were related to professional identity and clinical competency. Conclusion: There is positive relationship between clinical competency and professional identity, which means that development of positive attitudes regarding the psychiatric nursing can lead to higher clinical competency of the participants. The findings of the study highlighted the weight and role of positive attitude regarding the professional identity. It could result in increase of clinical competency and deserved attention of hospital’s managers.
Highlights
Clinical competency and knowledge of the effective factors are of critical importance in nursing
Study population was comprised of all nurses working in psychiatric wards of Tehranbased hospitals affiliated with Tehran Medical Science University, and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, who expressed their interest to take part in the study
The study was conducted with participation of 125 nurses of psychiatric wards
Summary
Clinical competency and knowledge of the effective factors are of critical importance in nursing. The present study is aimed at determining correlation between professional identity and clinical competence of the nurses working in psychiatric wards of the hospitals affiliated with Tehran-based medical sciences universities. Intense competitive environment and technological changes impose ever-increasing pressure on organizations to improve performance of their workforce This puts more emphasis on competency in the competitive environment [1]. Among the concerns that importance of the clinical competency lies in are rapid changes of health surveying systems, necessity of safe and affordable services; public informing works regarding health issues and increase of expectations of service takers; desire to recruit more skillful staff by health service providers bodies [8]; and changes in roles and tasks of the nurse, which make it a complicated profession [9]. One may claim that guaranteeing quality of health services and ensuring clinical competency of nurses are of the main concerns of health systems and of top priorities of nursing programs [10]
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