Abstract
Core competence is important for high-risk and high-demand operating room nurses, while there are few reports on the core competence of operating room nurses and its influencing factors. This study was to investigate the core competence of nurses in operating room and to explore the effect of fixed surgery specialty on their core competence. The Competency Inventory for Registered Nurses scale, which includes 7 dimensions consisting of a total of 58 items, including ethics/legal practice, professional development ability, leadership ability, clinical nursing ability, interpersonal relationship ability, education/counseling ability and critical thinking/scientific research ability, was used to evaluate the core competence of nurses. Based on the core competence scale of registered nurses, the specific items of core competence of nurses in 5 operating rooms were added to investigate 408 operating room nurses in 8 Grade 3A hospitals in Guangzhou. The total average score of core competence of nurses in operating room was (2.80±0.54). The scores of core competence of nurses in fixed surgery specialty were higher than that in unfixed surgery specialty group (P<0.05). Fixed in a particular surgery specialty is beneficial to improve the core competence of nurses in operating room and improve the quality and efficiency of surgical nursing cooperation.
Highlights
The core competence of nurses refers to the ability of individuals to combine knowledge, skills and judgment in their daily work and use them effectively, which reflects the knowledge, understanding and judgment, cognition and skills needed by nurses to complete their basic job duties, personal characteristics and posture [1]
The special department of fixed surgery specialty in operating room refers to the nurses who have been trained in the operating room are relatively fixed in a surgical room to cooperate with nursing, which remains unchanged for more than two years
The results of our study showed that the total average score of core competence of nurses in operating room of 8 Grade 3A general hospitals in Guangzhou was (2.80±0.54), which was above the middle level, which was lower than that of nurses in related studies [6]
Summary
The core competence of nurses refers to the ability of individuals to combine knowledge, skills and judgment in their daily work and use them effectively, which reflects the knowledge, understanding and judgment, cognition and skills needed by nurses to complete their basic job duties, personal characteristics and posture [1]. The core competence of nurses has been paid more and more attention, and it is regarded as an important reference for nurses' on-the-job training, performance appraisal, career development and talent selection [1,2,3]. The special department of fixed surgery specialty in operating room refers to the nurses who have been trained in the operating room are relatively fixed in a surgical room to cooperate with nursing, which remains unchanged for more than two years. The purpose of our study was to explore the effect of fixed surgery specialty on the core competence of nurses in operating room, so as to provide reference for the post management of clinical nurses in operating room
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