Evaluation of Clinical Competence and its Related Factors among Emergency Nurses in Palestinian Hospitals رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

Introduction: Nurses are responsible to provide primary care for approximately millions of patients, and emergency nurses serve as frontline in providing care for mild to severe critical ill patient. The major aim of the study is to assess and evaluate clinical competence and its related factors among emergency nurses in Palestinian hospitals. Methods: In cross sectional descriptive study, 200 participant of emergency nurses who work in governmental and privet Palestinian hospitals. Tow research tools were used in the study: nursing competence scale adopted from the study conducted by Meretoja et al. based on Benner's theory at 2004, and Job satisfaction questionnaire: The questionnaire was adopted from the study conducted at 1997 by Macdonald and Maclntyr. The research tools contain two major parts: the first part is about demographic data, the second one is about nursing competence scale and job satisfaction scale. Data were analyzed by SPSS using the Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test and ANOVA test. Results: the results showed that only 33(19.4%) of the participants were at good clinical level and no one in very good level, and the highest proportion of good level 60 (35.3%) was helping role while the lowest one 38 (22.4%) was ensuring quality. Also, the results showed there was statistically a significant difference between mean of clinical competence scores and job satisfaction (P<0.05). Conclusion: Emergency nurses play a major role in health care because they work in front line and they are the first people who deal with any health catastrophe, so improving their clinical competency will lead to powerful quality of care that provided for patients.