AN ASSESSMENT OF VARIOUS COMPETENCIES ON THE JOB PERFORMANCE OF NURSES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Abstract

The exploratory study investigated nurse’s assessment of various competencies on job
performances. Nurse’s self-evaluation on their job performance was depicted as the indicator
of the quality of services they usually provide. A total of 60 items are clustered into 5 basic
competencies by using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) in SPSS: Behavioural
Competencies, Clinical Competencies, Managerial competencies, Ethical Competencies and
Technological Competencies. 700 nurses are invited to participate and 660 data was collected
successfully by manually and Google doc. from five multispecialty hospitals of
Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Multiple Regression analyses found that Clinical Competencies (CC),
Behavioural Competencies, Ethical Competencies (EC) and Technological Competencies
(TC) are positively related to Job Performance (JP) and Managerial Competencies (MC) are
negatively related. This may be helpful for the nursing professionals to emphasize more and
more training on the above-mentioned competencies to perform in a better way. As per the
assessment of competencies; trainers or seniors or experts of the relevant field should design
the course curriculum and also the training or learning sessions to make the nurses more
competent and confident to provide good quality of service.