Staff nurse to head nurse: factors involved in the promotion process.

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Title Staff nurse to head nurse: factors involved in the promotion process.
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Tuohig, Gail M.
Date 1985-12
Description This survey research concerning the staff nurse promotion process to head nurse positions identified several factors which nurse managers look for in a head nurse candidate. Managerial capability was listed as the most important factor in staff nurse promotion. The following factors ranked second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively-interpersonal relations, clinical performance, education and years of experience. Nurse Managers also placed a considerable amount of importance of the promotable characteristics of stress tolerance, motivation, independence, leadership, interpersonal relations, analysis and synthesis abilities, oral and written communication, quality of judgment and planning and organizing skills. Performance evaluations were indeed felt to be a valuable link in the promotion decision process. Criterion-based performance appraisals were the most commonly used among the hospitals surveyed. Ninety-four percent of the respondents felt that staff nurse promotions should come from within the organization. Those performance evaluation pitfalls which occur most frequently among nurse managers are dump trucking, mistaken impression, rather leniency and reservoir of hostility.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Leadership; Professional Competence
Subject MESH Administrative Personnel; Nursing, Supervisory
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Staff nurse to head nurse: factors involved in the promotion process." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Staff nurse to head nurse: factors involved in the promotion process." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RT 2.5 1985 T86.
Rights Management © Gail M. Tuohig.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,260
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Setname ir_etd
ID 192666
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x642gk
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