Factors related to a successful professional development for specialist nurses in surgical care : a cross-sectional study
Drott, Jenny ; Engström, My ; Jangland, Eva ; Fomichov, Victoria ; Malmström, Marlene LU
and Jakobsson, Jenny
(2023)
In BMC Nursing
22(1).
- Abstract
Background: A high level of competence among staff is necessary for providing patient-safe surgical care. Knowledge regarding what factors contribute to the professional development of specialist nurses in surgical care and why they choose to remain in the workplace despite high work requirements is needed. To investigate and describe the organizational and social work environment of specialist nurses in surgical care as part of studying factors that impact on professional development. Method: This was a cross-sectional study with a strategic convenience sampling procedure that recruited 73 specialist nurses in surgical care in Sweden between October to December 2021. The study was guided by STROBE Statement and checklist of... (More)
Background: A high level of competence among staff is necessary for providing patient-safe surgical care. Knowledge regarding what factors contribute to the professional development of specialist nurses in surgical care and why they choose to remain in the workplace despite high work requirements is needed. To investigate and describe the organizational and social work environment of specialist nurses in surgical care as part of studying factors that impact on professional development. Method: This was a cross-sectional study with a strategic convenience sampling procedure that recruited 73 specialist nurses in surgical care in Sweden between October to December 2021. The study was guided by STROBE Statement and checklist of cross-sectional studies. The validated Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire was used, and additional demographic data. Descriptive statistics were performed and the comparison to the population benchmarks was presented as the mean with a 95% confidence interval. To study potential differences among the demographic and professional characteristics, pairwise t tests were used with Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons with a significance level of 5%. Results: Five domains were identified as factors related to success, as they received higher scores in relation to population benchmarks: quality of leadership, variation of work, meaning of work and work engagement as well as job insecurity. There was also a significant association between a having a manager with low nursing education and job insecurity (p = 0.021). Conclusions: Quality of leadership is important for the professional development of specialist nurses in surgical care. Strategic work seems to include managers with a higher nursing education level to prevent insecure professional working conditions.
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- author
- Drott, Jenny
; Engström, My
; Jangland, Eva
; Fomichov, Victoria
; Malmström, Marlene
LU
and Jakobsson, Jenny
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Clinical competence, Leadership, Professional competence, Surgical nursing, Working condition
- in
- BMC Nursing
- volume
- 22
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 79
- publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85150917636
- pmid:36949475
- ISSN
- 1472-6955
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12912-023-01258-0
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 25770fc8-c5ac-4506-a6ab-af16b2625dd2
- date added to LUP
- 2023-05-15 13:57:28
- date last changed
- 2024-06-16 05:30:37
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