Abstract
Objective To explore the affecting factors of nursing interns' personal knowledge management (KM) ability and analyze the correlation between their KM ability and clinical ability.Methods A total of 345 nursing interns' KM ability and clinical ability were investigated by using two scales.Results Affecting factors of nursing interns' KM ability included being a cadre and being interested in nursing specialty or not.Factors affecting nursing interns' clinical ability were practice period,academic records,being a cadre,intention to have a nursing job,interest to be a nurse.It also showed significant positive correlation between their KM ability and clinical ability (r=0.761); KM ability could explain 59％ of variability of clinical ability(R2=0.599).Among the dimensions of KM ability,the highest positive correlation was knowledge management cognition (r=0.741).Conclusions To enhance nursing interns' clinical ability,we need cultivate nursing interns' interest to nursing specialty,ability to be a cadre and improve their knowledge management cognition ability. Key words: Nursing intern; Knowledge management; Ability of clinical
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