Evaluation of the Nurse Manager’s Administrative Role-Performance at the Surgical Operating Room
Dr.Amean A. Yasir
Abstract
A descriptive study, using the comparative approach, was carried
out from November 2nd, 2002 through June 30th, 2003 in order to evaluate
the nurse manager administrative role performance in the operating room
of Baghdad public and private hospitals.
Non-probability sampling was performed. A purposive sample of
(50) nurse manager was selected from the early stated hospitals in
Baghdad. These nurse managers were divided into two groups of (25)
nurse manager each. One of each represented the public and the private
hospitals and those with university, diploma, high school, and nursing
school degrees. Nurse managers, who were included in the study, those
who had more than (3) years of experience in operating room
administration.
A questionnaire was constructed for the purpose of the study. It
was composed of (8) major parts and the overall items included in the
questionnaire were (88) item. Reliability and validity of the Questionnaire
were determined through a pilot study.
The questionnaire and the structured interview technique were used
as means of data collection. Data were analyzed through the application
of the descriptive data analysis approach(frequency, percentage and
mean) and the inferential data analysis approach(T-test and ANOVA).
The findings of the study indicated that academically prepared
nurse managers had adequately performed their administrative role
performance of surgical scheduling, organizing, and directing the
operating room. Demographic characteristics of nurse managers’ age,
gender, type of hospital, number of years since being a nurse manager, and number of years of experience did not influence the aspects the
nurse managers’ administrative role performance.
The study concluded that both of the public and the private
hospitals lack organizational structure in which systematic policy can be
implemented for the improvement of the administrative role performance
of these managers. They had lack in scientific and professional
orientations so their administrative role performance was inadequate.
The study recommended that for better quality of managed care,
public and private hospitals administrations can hire academically
prepared nurse managers and those with wide-range experience.
Hospitals can present more flexible policy-wise-system in which nurse
managers can perform more effective roles for better improvement as
health care professional rather than only service providers.