Entry-Level Skill Competency: A Comparison of Head Nurses' Expectations and New Graduates' Perceptions

Yin-Yu Lee；Ching-Huey Chen；Chi-Jen Wang

nursing skill competency ； head nurses ； new graduates

The Journal of Nursing Research

10卷3期（2002 / 09 / 01）

217 - 226

英文

The purpose of this study was to corn pare the differences between head nurses’ expectations and new graduates’ perceptions of the entry-level skill cornpetency. Subjects included 147 new graduates and 126 headnurses frorn four schools of nursing and the iraffiliatedrnedical centers located in northern, central and southem Taiwan. The results showed that among 213 skills, 153 skills were reported by over 60% of head nurses to be per formed precisely under clinical settings. In contrast to the graduates’ perceptions, over 60% of the graduates had confidence to per form only 82 skills precisely. The percent age of head nurses’ expectation and the perception of the graduates in skills that were reported to beperforrned precisely in clinical situations were significantly differenct in 145 skills (68%). For seventy-six skill iterns there was congruence between the per cent age of head nurses’expectations and new grad u ates’per cep tions. The percentage of the headnurses’expec tation were higher than the graduates’ perception in 55 skills. On the other hand, for 14 skills the per cent age of graduates who perceived them selves as being able to perform them precisely was significantly higher than the percentage of head nurses. The results can be applied to improve nursing skills’ teaching and students’ pre-job preparation.

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