| 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. |
