Authors : Alireza Ghahrisarabi, Ali Asghar Shouryabi, Sima Zohari Anboohi, Malihe Nasiri and Maryam Rassouli
Abstract: The need for providing nursing cares in complicated situations specifically in the intensive and critical care units, shows the nurses’sclinical and professional competence importance in such units. Based on it, the present study was performed to determine the ratio of the nurses’s clinical and professional competence in the Intensive and Critical Care Units. In this cross-sectional study, to hundred and eighty nine nurses of Intensive and Critical Care Units from nine hospitals in ShahidBeheshti University of Medical Sciences were selected by census. The tools for data gathering were a demographic questionnaire and The Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Competence PersianScale-Version 1 is a self assessment test that consists of 144 items and four domains which are knowledge base, skill base, attitudesand valuesbase and experience base, that is divided into clinical competence and professional competence. Original version of the scale was translated from English to Persian language using Wild method and psychometric properties was tested. The SPSS-PC (V. 21) was used to analyze the data.For determine deferent indices of descriptive statistics were usedFrequency statistics, mean, mode, Standard deviation, in order to determining a significant difference between the means was used ANOVA and to determine the relationship between variables was used Pearson correlation coefficient. Meaningfulness level was considered α = 0.05. The results indicated that the most casesof the nurses were female, married, holder of Bachelor’sdegree, Formal employment, the age range 31-38, shift rotation, work experience average 11.2 year, an average of 7.6 years of experience in Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. The results of study, showed the nurses’s clinical and professional competence were 25% good and 75% excellent. Between underlying factors such as age, nurses’s work experience and experience in Critical Care Nursing with clinical competence and professional nurses was a significant positive relationship. But between the clinical and professional competencein between women and men, there was no significant difference. The results revealed that the highest percentage of the studied units in four aspects (knowledge, skill, attitude and value, experience) was at excelent. According to nurses specifically in intensive care units and based on this study finding are recommended that the clinical and professional competence of the nurses be assessed annually and results be used for incentive programs, nurses rating and staffing deployment.
Alireza Ghahrisarabi, Ali Asghar Shouryabi, Sima Zohari Anboohi, Malihe Nasiri and Maryam Rassouli, 2016. Clinical and Professional Competence of Practicing Nurses in Intensive and Critical Care Units. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 10: 406-411.