The Effects of CLEAR Supervision Skill Development Program of Head Nurses at a Tertiary Level Hospital in the Medical Service Department under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

Abstract

Objective: This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of CLEAR supervision skill development program of head nurses at a Tertiary Level Hospital in the Medical Service Department under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and to compare CLEAR supervision skill before and after the training in CLEAR supervision skill development program.

Materials and Methods: Research samples were 30 head nurses who have been working at Charoenkrung Pracharuk Hospital. The samples were selected by using purposively sampling. The research instruments were sets of personal data questionnaire, CLEAR supervision skill questionnaire, and CLEAR supervision skill development program which were tested for content validity by five experts. The content validity index was 0.98, and the Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient was 0.95. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, and paired t-test.

Result: The research results revealed that before training the program, head nurses had CLEAR supervision skill at a moderate level ( =2.74,S.D.=0.568), and after training the program, the overall of the supervision skill was at a high level ( =3.23,S.D.=0.497) and its five dimensions of the supervision skill was also at  a high level at p <.05. (t=4.93, p< .05)

Conclusions: CLEAR supervision skill development program were to improve supervision skill of head nurses. Based on the finding of this research, it is recommended that nurse administrators should be enhanced and encouraged to use this program to develop nursing supervision skill for head nurses emphasis on advisory practical supervision in all units, especially the supervision that focused on  advising  nurses to solve problems on their own.

Keywords: SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, CLEAR SUPERVISION,  HEAD NURSE