Organization climate affecting the professional competency performance of practical level nurses at a tertiary hospital in the Northeast of Thailand

Abstract

This is a cross sectional descriptive research aimed to study organizational climate affecting the professional competency performance of practical level nurses at a tertiary hospital in the Northeast of Thailand. The population was registered nurses in12 departments of In Patient Department (IPD) of the hospital. The questionnaire was collected for quantitative data from 343 samples obtained from stratified random sampling technique and in-depth interview for quantitative data from 12keyinformants. The content validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by 3 experts yielding IOC value more than 0.50 in every question. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.97. Data was collected during 19th May to 19th June 2020 and analyzed by a computer program to acquire the descriptive and inferential statistics with statistical significance level of 0.05.

The results showed that the organizational climate was found at high level (= 4.26, S.D. = 0.41). and the professional competency of the registered nurses at a tertiary hospital in northeast was found at medium level (= 4.15, S.D. = 0.38). The organizational climate has moderately correlation to the professional competency of the registered nurses at a tertiary hospitalin the northeast (r = 0.517, p-value < 0.001). The variables which predicted the professional competency of practical level nurses at the significantly level 0.05 were the dimension of identity, responsibility, warmth and dimension of support. The 4 factors could predict the professional competency of practical level nurses at 39.3 percent.