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Investigating the Relationship of Organizational Commitment and Clinical Competence (Case study: Nurses Working in Montazeri Hospital, City of Najafabad, Iran, 2015)
- Source :
- International Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences, Vol 5, Iss 5S, Pp 308-316 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Sumathi Publications, 2016.
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Abstract
- Human resources committed to the organization not only reduces absence, delay, and replacement, but also causes the increase of organizational performance, employees’ mental freshness, better attainment to organizational excellent goals, and achieving individual’s objectives. Hence, organizational commitment has special importance among the employees of hospital. The nurses’ competence is an important criterion required for providing patients’ health-cares. The change in nurses’ roles and duties has changed the job to a complicated one and requires having various skills, and has caused the clinical competence to be considered more. The present study was performed with the aim of investigating the relationship of organizational commitment and clinical competence in nurses. The research was descriptive correlation type, and the statistical population was all nurses (176 persons) working in Montazeri Hospital, Najafabad city, selected by Census method and 135 persons were investigated. The data collection tool included three questionnaires of personal information, Allen and Meyer’s questionnaire of organizational commitment, and questionnaire of clinical competence, that their validity and reliability were confirmed. Data was analyzed with independent t-test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient using the software SPSS 17. The average score of organizational commitment was 91± 10.76, and at medium level. The average score of clinical competence was 74.42±11.69, and at good level. There was no significant relationship between organizational commitment and clinical competence in the nurses. Only, the emotional commitment dimension had significant relationship with the quality assurance area of clinical competence (P Keywords: Organizational Commitment, Clinical Competence, Nursing staff
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23195886
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....48dbb05fbff87319c00c2ab956eef36f