Teachers' managerial competency from nursing students' & faculty staff's point of view

Hedayat Jafari; Eesa Mohammadi; Fazlollah Ahmadi; Anoshirvan Kazemnejad

Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences

The Official Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

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Teachers' managerial competency from nursing students' & faculty staff's point of view

Author(s):

Hedayat Jafari¹,

Eesa Mohammadi

^1,*,

Fazlollah Ahmadi¹,

Anoshirvan Kazemnejad²

1Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2Department of BioStatistics, Medical Sciences College, Tarbiat Modares University,Tehran, Iran

Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences:Vol. 1, issue 3; 24-31

Published online:Mar 03, 2015

Article type:Research Article

Received:Jun 14, 2014

Accepted:Aug 24, 2014

How to Cite:Hedayat Jafari, Eesa Mohammadi, Fazlollah Ahmadi, Anoshirvan Kazemnejad, Teachers' managerial competency from nursing students' & faculty staff's point of view.J Nurs Midwifery Sci.2015;1(3):e141395.

Abstract

Background and Purpose: One of the dimensions of nursing faculty staff competency is management. Thus discovering and
explaining it for planning, administrating educational, research & administrative affairs is very important. This study aims to discover
the meaning of nursing faculty staff managerial competency in the students' & teachers' mind.
Method: This study is a qualitative one with content analysis approach. The data have been gathered through deep unstructured
interviews in the form of 30 individual and one focus group. The sampling has been done as purposive in 2012-2013 at Mazandaran
Medical Sciences University. The data have been analyzed by conventional qualitative content analysis method.
Results: The data resulted in extracting 3 themes: promoting interaction & communication capability, boosting management
capability, paying attention to & observing nursing standards and 7 categories: facilitating the relationship among the coworkers,
officials and students, creating relationship with influential people in order to promote the major, shouldering the administrative
responsibility, managing the educational & class group, enriching the specialized sessions, having discipline & adhering to the
professional principles. These themes indicate the semantic features perceived by nursing faculty staff and students about nursing
teachers' managerial competency.
Conclusion: Besides presenting 3 basic features of nursing faculty staff managerial competency, the present study could determine
the criteria of these features regarding the field conditions. These findings can be applied for designing the rating scale for nursing
faculty members' professional competency.

Keywords

Managerial competency

Nursing faculty staff

Nursing students

Qualitative research

Content analysis

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