Constructing a caring training content for nurse managers: a Delphi study
Article Category: Original article
Published Online: Jul 10, 2019
Page range: 161 - 168
Received: Jun 27, 2018
Accepted: Sep 09, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/FON-2019-0024
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© 2019 Rui Chen and Yi-Lan Liu, published by Sciendo
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Objective
To design a scientific, feasible caring training content for nurse managers.
Methods
Training content came from review of literature; all the content were sorted out, analyzed, and compiled by the research team. Then, a Delphi method was used to collect opinions from experts on the caring training contents.
Results
A 22-member multidisciplinary panel was engaged in a two-round Delphi process to assess the importance of the items and to identify any additional elements. Consensus was obtained on 23 items that belonged to four modules. There were 10 items related to caring knowledge and caring ability, six items related to caring leadership, three items related to caring education, and four items related to caring research.
Conclusions
The four-module integrated training contents achieved in this study represented the core caring knowledge and skills that a nurse manager who worked in hospital needed to know. Nurse managers can choose any module to have a system learning according to their practical needs, totally or separately.