Executive Competencies of Nurses within the Veterans Health Administration: Comparison of Current and Future Nurse Executive Views.

摘要

This study determines if current and future nurse executives differ in their perceptions of the skills, knowledge, and abilities (SKAs) required to he successful in the role of nurse executive within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Using the Delphi method for executive decision-making, 144 current nurse executives, as well as 168 nurses identified for potential selection to this position, judged the relative importance of SKAs using a scale with 1 = unimportant to 7 = important. The main outcome measures were the main effects of group membership (current versus future nurse executives), differences among items within eight specific domains, and assessment of potential interaction effects for the dependent variable of SKA item importance ratings. The results show that no main effects were found for overall rating differences between the current and future nurse executive groups for any of the eight domains; however, statistically significant and systematic within- main-effect differences were detected for SKA items in all domains. The importance ratings subjects gave SKAs in the eight domains were highly similar between the two groups.