assessment of nurse manager knowledge about magnet leader

Research Abstract

Abstract Assessment of Nursing Managers Knowledge about Magnet Leader Mansour Mohamed abdo El Kharashy 1, Prof. Eman Salman Taie 2, Assis. Prof. Hoda Abd El Moneim El Guindy 3 1Clinical Instructor in Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing Beni_suef University. 2 Professor and Head of Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing Helwan University. 3 Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration Department and Vice Dean of Education and Students Affaires, Faculty of Nursing, Beni_suef University. Abstract Background: Magnet Leadership is a new approach that helps in improve patient care, decrease staff turnover and increase patient and staff satisfaction. Aim: To assess nurse managers' knowledge about magnet leader. Design: Descriptive design was used in this study. Sample: The study subjects included (56) nurse manager both male and female. Setting: Data was collected from all units at El-Nozha and As-Salam international hospital. Tools: One tool was used for data collection: Assessment Nurse Managers Knowledge about Magnet Leader questionnaire. Results: more than two thirds (77.2%) of the study sample regarding to their knowledge were satisfactory at El-Nozha international hospital and only (35.2%) at As-Salam international hospital. Conclusion: The study concluded that, the majority of study sample had unsatisfactory knowledge about characteristics, importance and role of magnet leader. Recommendations: incorporate magnetism concepts into nursing curriculum. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Key words: nurse manager, knowledge, magnet leader.

Research Keywords

assessment of nurse manager knowledge about magnet leader