Abstract
Purpose: The readiness and strategies of management are important factors to gain higher passing grade on nursing national competency examination. This study analyzed the strategy and readiness of the managers to success try out and national competency examination and the readiness for administering Computer Based Test on national nursing competency examination in Indonesia.Methods: This descriptive correlative research with population of 437 three years diploma in nursing institutions used quota and accidental sampling technique with 123 participants. The data were analyzed by using of frequency distribution, Spearman Rank Correlation and Multiple Regression analysis units.Results: The results identified that 52,8% had accreditation status in level B. There were increasing results of the students that became better in the real results of national competency exam than the results on try-out exam. The preparation strategic 3 months before the exam was good (57.7%) and 56.9% of the participants were not ready to deliver the national exam in Computer Based Test. There was a significant correlation between the results of the exam with accreditation status (p= .014), student body (p=.02) and 3 months preparation before the exam (p=.021). The most dominant predictor in success of the exam was the accreditation status with p value=.005.Conclusions: Managers of three years diploma nursing degree have to prepare and have a good strategy for success in nursing national competency examination especially in managing student body, achieve good accreditation status and good strategic in preparing for attaining high passing grade on national competency examination.
Highlights
The ASEAN’s vision of 2020, which is to integrate the ASEAN economic activities as a single market is happening
The research was done across Indonesia with the total population of 437 three year diploma program in nursing around Indonesia
Those three years diploma degree in nursing were the members of AIPViKI (Asosiasi Institusi Penyelenggara Pendidikan Vokasi Keperawatan Indonesia)/ the association of institution that administer the nursing vocation degree in Indonesia that divided for 14 regionals of AIPViKI
Summary
The ASEAN’s vision of 2020, which is to integrate the ASEAN economic activities as a single market is happening. Indonesia has to implement the MRA (Mutual Recognition Arrangement) and must respond to the social activities of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The field of nursing and tourism are some free flow services that ready to compete in the era of these free market competition. Nurses who are have similar nursing education system and health systems will deliver the nursing competency exam and professional certification in the same and they will migrate from a wide variety of countries (Covell, Primeau, Kilpatrick & St.Pierre, 2017). Talking about potential power in global market competition, the human index achievements of Indonesian people is an important key that cannot be released from the concept of world’s competition. When speaking about the concept of competition / competitiveness, we cannot ignore of the term named competency
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