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’
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