Abstract
Background: Surveying the educational needs of nursing managers specially in quality assurance of nursing care is an essential stage for planning implementation and assessment of nursing education. Objective: To determine the educational needs of nursing managers in relation to quality assurance of nursing care in Qazvin teaching hospitals. Methods: A total number of 50 nursing managers (Nursing administrator, supervisors and headnurses) completed the questionnaires of this analytical-descriptive survey done in 1997. Using X² test, Fisher test and P-correlation coefficient the data were analyzed. Findings: Results indicated that 76% of the samples needed to be taught in knowledge field and 80% of them needed to be taught in performance field specially in setting standards of care and methods of monitoring nursing care and teaching this concept to subordinate employees. Conclusion: These findings should lead the educational planners to change the syllabus of nursing management course and subsequently to improre the continual inservice training plans.
Keywords
Educational needs Quality assurance Nursing managers Nursing education
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