Improving Nurse Managers’ Competencies: A Systematic Review

Priscylia Maria Sandehang, Muthmainnah

2018

Abstract

Nurse managers’ competencies greatly influence the quality of services and nursing care. Consequently, the aim of this study is to identify and to define the competencies of nurses working in management roles in the healthcare system so they can undertake their roles effectively. This research used a systematic literature review design and analysed 40 articles. Twenty-five studies were from Europe and 15 from outside Europe. The literature was limited to articles published in English between November 2003 and 2018 that were searched using these keywords: nurse manager, competence, nurses, career plan, improving, assessment tools, clinical competence, professional competence. In this study, six dimensions of nursing managers’ competencies emerged: sociodemographics, technical, networking, administrative, staff development, and legal and ethical. This literature review provided scientific evidence for decision makers to consider the implementation of a nurse manager competency system, including leadership development, the redesigning of managers’ role, building networks, clinical skills and climbing the career ladder. Future studies are suggested to investigate the usefulness of the competency model for assessing nursing managers’ readiness to between job applicants, implement continuing education programmes for nurse managers, and develop and plan their careers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sandehang P. and Muthmainnah. (2018). Improving Nurse Managers’ Competencies: A Systematic Review.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Indonesian National Nurses Association - Volume 1: ICINNA, ISBN 978-989-758-406-0, pages 57-66. DOI: 10.5220/0008201300570066

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinna18,
author={Priscylia Maria Sandehang and Muthmainnah},
title={Improving Nurse Managers’ Competencies: A Systematic Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Indonesian National Nurses Association - Volume 1: ICINNA,},
year={2018},
pages={57-66},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008201300570066},
isbn={978-989-758-406-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Indonesian National Nurses Association - Volume 1: ICINNA,
TI - Improving Nurse Managers’ Competencies: A Systematic Review
SN - 978-989-758-406-0
AU - Sandehang P.
AU - Muthmainnah.
PY - 2018
SP - 57
EP - 66
DO - 10.5220/0008201300570066