Determining the Skills Required for Nurses by the Delphi Method and Comparing Them with the Skills: Mixed Method: Descriptive Research

OpenAlex İngilizce

Objective: It was aimed to identify the skills that should senior- and lower-level manager nurses in Türkiye should possess, to compare the levels of presence of these skills in senior- and lower-level managers based on self-assessment the evaluations made by their subordinates. Material and Methods: The research was carried out in 2 stages, in which the Delphi method, one of the qualitative research methods. The universe of the first stage of the study consisted of executive nurses who are members of the Executive Nurses Association, included 57 administrators. The second phase of the research was composed of nurses, manager nurses working in 9 state hospitals and the sample of this stage consisted of a total of 442 nurses who volun- tarily agreed to participate in the study. Results: Skills were classified as: 'human relations and communication', 'nursing care management', 'human resource management', 'management and leadership', 'professionalism'. In study, a statistically significant difference was found between the self-evaluation of senior manager nurses and the assessment of mid-level manager nurses in all skills (p <0.05). There were statistically significant differences in the sub-dimensions of 'human relations and communication', 'management of nursing care', 'management and leadership', 'professionalism' in the evaluations of nurses, who are subordinates of low-level manager nurses (p<0.05). Conclusion: The skill list of senior, lower-level manager nurses were created under 5 main headings. When the status of possessing these skills was assessed by the subordinates of the superiors, it was found that the subordinates evaluated them significantly lower than their selfevaluations (p<0.05).