Relationships between nursing work team functioning, head nurses' managerial skills, and nursing team effectiveness as perceived by staff nurses, regional hospital and medical centers
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study nursing team effectiveness of staff nurses, to determine the relationships between work team functioning, head nurses managerial skills and nursing team effectiveness of staff nurses in regional hospital and medical centers, and to explore the variables that predict nursing team effectiveness. The research sample consisted of 374 nurses, randomly selected through multi-stage sampling technique. Content validity and reliability of the questionnaire, nursing work team functioning, head nurse managerial skills, and nursing team effectiveness were performed. The related of Cronbach Alpha Coefficients were .86, .98 and .93 respectively. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearsons Product Moment Correlation Coefficients and Multiple Regression Analysis were performed. The major findings were as follows: 1. The nursing team effectiveness of staff nurses in regional hospital and medical centers was at the high level. ( = 3.83) 2. The nursing work team functioning was moderately and positively related to nursing team effectiveness (r = .56) with significantly at the .05 level. 3. The head nurses managerial skills was moderately and positively related to nursing team effectiveness (r = .49) with significantly at the .05 level. 4. Variables that significantly predict nursing team effectiveness of staff nurses in regional hospital and medical centers was at the .05 level. There were the 2 predictor variables that able to account for 35 percent (R2 = .35) of the variance. The variables nursing were work team functioning, and head nurses managerial skills. The predicted equation in standard score can be stated as follows: Nursing team effectiveness = 0.40 * Z Nursing work team functioning+0.25*Z head nurses managerial skills