Competency-based Intervention for Head Nurses

NCT06366646 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 035901
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Head nurses have a crucial leadership role in managing their units and providing high-quality and safe nursing care. Head nurse leadership competency and effectiveness are very essential to manage nursing care practices and management activities in their hospitals. Development leadership competency intervention programs would improve the head nurse's competency and effectiveness.

Conditions

Intervention; Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Keywords

leadership; Competency; Effectiveness; Intervention; Program; Head nurses

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Questionnaire to measure head nurses' knowledge of leadership competency

  Head nurses' Knowledge of competency as assessed using five Likert scales (ranging from (1) not essential to (5) extremely essential with each statement).

  one month

• Questionnaire to measure head nurses' ability to use leadership competency

  Head nurses perceived their ability to use leadership competency as assessed using five Likert scales (from 1 = never / no to 5 = always / yes).

  one month

• Questionnaire to measure leadership effectiveness

  Leadership effectiveness as assessed using a five Likert scale (1= strongly disagree and 5= strongly agree).

  one month

Study Arms (2)

group of head nurses

OTHER

Head nurses received competency-based intervention

Other: Competency-based intervention

group of assistant head nurses

OTHER

assistant head nurses received competency-based intervention

Other: Competency-based intervention

Interventions

Competency-based intervention OTHER

90 head nurses and their assistants received the competency-based intervention program

group of assistant head nurses; group of head nurses

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Head nurses
• willing to participate in the study
• work in general wards and toxicology, intensive and critical care units
• Sign a consent

You may not qualify if:

• Head nurses
• work in outpatient units
• Did not sign a consent
• Absent from training

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Matrouh University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University

Marsá Maţrūḩ, 002, Egypt

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior

Study Officials

• Nagah Abd El-Fattah Mohamed Aly, Ph.D

  Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University, Egypt

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Wael M. Lotfy, Ph.D

  Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University, Egypt

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Safaa M. El-Shanawany, Ph.D

  Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

  STUDY CHAIR

• Maha Ghanem, Ph.D

  Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

  STUDY CHAIR

• Elham Abd El KaderFayad, Ph.D

  Psychatric Nursing and Mental health , Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: A quasi-experimental design utilized one group for pre-, post, and follow-up intervention.
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant professor of Nursing administration

Model Details: A quasi-experimental design

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 3, 2024
• First Posted: April 16, 2024
• Study Start: December 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: April 30, 2023
• Study Completion: April 30, 2023
• Last Updated: April 16, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

EG (1)