Effectiveness of Nursing Management Educational Program upon Head Nurses Knowledge Regarding Staff Management

Abstract

Background: Globally, the role of the unit nurse manager has evolved exponentially over the past several
decades from that of clinical ward sister, overseeing mainly patient care on a single unit, to that of nurse
manager with a much wider scope of practice. Unit operations including budget, recruitment and retention,
staff development, quality and evidence-based practice for patient outcomes. Prior to that era, “ward charge
nurses” were responsible for only clinical patient care on their single unit, and were expected to perform
patient care (Bailey, 2014).
Objectives: Implement the nursing management education program for the study group.
Methodology: A quasi-experimental design is carried out throughout the present study with the application
of test-retest approach for the study and control groups from March 24th 2019 to Feb 19th 2020.
Settings of the Study: This study was conducted at the nursing units of Al-Najaf AL-Ashraf City Hospitals
which include (Al-Sadr Medical City, Al-Hakeem General Hospital and Al-Zahra Teaching Hospital, they
represented AL-Najaf AL-Ashraf city).
Result: Showed that the study group participants had benefits from the implementation of nursing
management education program.
Conclusions: The program considered an effective mean for the improvement of the head nurse’s knowledge.
Recommendations: Head nurses should have the required knowledge about wards management regarding
staff management. And nursing management education program is an important tool for the development of
head nurses’ skills. Accordingly, head nurses need to be encouraged to participate in nursing management
education program focused on staff management. Finally, the study proved that there is an essential need
for collaboration between the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research with Ministry of Health
and Environment to improve the nursing management courses as a part of curriculum in nursing institutes
and universities.