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ArticleNursing open2020

A study on improving nursing clinical competencies in a surgical department: A participatory action research.

Mohammad Afshar, Hamidreza Sadeghi-Gandomani, Negin Masoudi Alavi

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Article in Nursing open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Mohammad AfsharTrauma Nursing Research Center Kashan University of Medical Sciences Kashan Iran.
Hamidreza Sadeghi-GandomaniKashan University of Medical Sciences Kashan Iran.
Negin Masoudi AlaviTrauma Nursing Research Center Kashan University of Medical Sciences Kashan Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-9519-0051

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Abstract

Aims: The purpose of the present study was to improve clinical competencies in nursing staff in a selected surgical department in Kashan/Iran during 2016-2018. Design: This was a participatory action research. Methods: This action research was implemented in four steps of problem identification, planning, action and reflection. Interviews, focus groups and observation were used for the qualitative part. Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire-II, job satisfaction and patients' satisfaction questionnaires were completed before and after the study. Qualitative content analysis, paired and independent Results: Three main problems could affect the clinical competencies including professional insufficiency, basic shortages and external influences. Three changes were implemented in the surgical department including improving education, involving nursing students in patients' education and increasing the motivations by peer evaluation and selecting the nurse of the week. The changes significantly increased patients' satisfaction, nurses' job satisfaction and work effectiveness.

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Clinical CompetenceJob SatisfactionHealth Services ResearchHumansIranMotivationclinical competencehealth services researchnursing

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PMCPMC7308675

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