2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Policy making competence of public health nurses : what competencies are essential for work as public health nurses of prefectural office, and what is necessary to achieve this
| Project/Area Number |
18592447
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Community health/Gerontological nurisng
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| Research Institution | Okayama Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
NINOMIYA Kazue Okayama Prefectural University, Department of Nursing Faculty of Health & Welfare Science, Professor (70347607)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ISHIMURA Kumiko Okayama Prefectural University, Department of Nursing Faculty of Health & Welfare Science, Associate Professor (90280073)
TOMITA Sanae Okayama Prefectural University, Department of Nursing Faculty of Health & Welfare Science, Assistant Professor (00448797)
ONO Turuko Kansai Welfare University, Faculty of Nursing, Professor (10020025)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | public health nurses / administration / policy making competence / career development / central offices of prefectures / mentoring / core competencies / nationwide survey |
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| Research Abstract |
A semi-controlled interview was conducted for public health nurses of Okayama prefecture to examine what competencies are essential for work as prefectural public health nurses, how to get the necessary competencies, and what is necessary to achieve this. The 8 core competencies of American public health nursing were analyzed and validity was confirmed by discussing it with the interviewed nurses and using comments of nurses from the Osaka prefectural health supervisory section. With in the 8 core competencies, making plans, policy making, financial planning and management related experiments were major. Also, all other core competencies corresponding to the specialist level were included. They are conscious of their role as experts in public health and try not to lose the preventive viewpoint of the patient despite their situation are far from practice and citizen.
An anonymous occupational opinion poll was conducted among 163 prefectural public health nurses (1.2 % men, 98.8 % women)
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working at central offices in 41 prefectures. The response rate was 47.5 %, their average age was 14.8±7.9 and average working years was 21.6. It was found that 57.2% were working at central office for the first time, 26.4 % went on to school, 72 % had presented at a prefectural meeting, 54.7 % had presented at the Japanese Society of Public Health, and 48 % subscribed to journals. A survey on mentoring showed their mentors were public health nurses (69.9%)and they had a tendency to regard career as important. Some desired characteristics were having a good personality good political competence and an executive ability, a wide view, and specific knowledge of public health nurses. A job characteristics survey showed that the essential skills were a prefecture-wide viewpoint and foresight, political knowledge, and ability to deal with budget and congress. They thought that community-based prevention is important although their situation was not directly with community. Each score for the group was as follows: "financial planning" and "executive ability" were 70.88 (highest), "practical ability" was 70.25, and "drafting policies and settling plan ability" was 61.93 (lowest). These scores showed significant differences between ages. Results of self-checking of 8 core competencies (max = 100 per each competence) showed that the group system is lower than the individual family. Less
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Research Products
(2 results)
