Comparison of management training demands of charge nurses with different types of leadership in general tertiary hospitals

Objective To analyze the main types of the in the charge nurses in Class Ⅲ general hospitals by the potential category model, so as to explore the training needs for the different types of charge nurses. Methods By cluster random sampling, charge nurses from 11 ClassⅢ general hospitals in Zhejiang province were selected from October to December of 2017 and studied by General Information Questionnaire, Leadership Questionnaire, and Training Needs Questionnaire. By Mplus 7.0 software, the potential category model of charge nurses' was analyzed and all categories of charge nurses' training needs were analyzed by SPSS 19.0 software. Totally 782 questionnaires were collected with 736 valid ones left after omitting the invalid ones, yielding an effective recovery rate of 94.12%. Results Potential category model analysis showed that in the 736 charge nurses, 3 categories of high level of leadership, medium level of and low level of accounted for 12.64%, 55.84% and 31.52% respectively. The charge nurses had high demands on position training, with each clauses exceeding 3.50 points, there were statistical differences in the 3 potential categories of charge nurses' training demands as well as scores from each clauses (P 0.05) . Conclusions There are 3 types of in the charge nurses of the Class Ⅲ general hospitals. The clauses with high demands among the nurses with low level of include nursing quality management nursing safety management; the clauses with high demands among the nurses with medium level of include staff stimulation and talent cultivation nursing safety management; the clauses with high demands among the nurses with high level of include strategic setup leadership improvement, etc. Key words: Nursing supervisor; Leadership; Charge nurses; Training demands