Satisfaction of The Employers toward Competencies for Graduate Nurses, Boromarajonani College of Nursing Udonthani

Abstract

The purpose of this descriptive research is to study the satisfaction of the nurses’ employers on the competence of nurses graduated from Boromarajonani College of Nursing Udonthani Year 2016, 109 persons. The samples were 98 the employers of nurses graduated from Boromarajonani College of Nursing Udonthani Year 2016 including chief nurses, senior nurses, deputy chief nurses. The instruments were the questionnaires about satisfaction of the nurses’employers on the competence of nurses graduated from Boromarajonani College of Nursing Udonthani. These instruments were tested for content validity by a panel of experts and Chronbach’s alpha were 0.86 respectively. The data were analyzed using SPSS for Windows for frequency, mean, standard deviation.

The findings showed that the satisfaction of the nurses’employers on the competence of nurses graduated (Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education: TQF) was at high level (= 4.43, S.D = 0.54) and in each aspect, it was found that 1) Ethics and Moral was at the highest level (= 4.58, S.D = 0.50) 2) Interpersonal skills and responsibility (= 4.50, S.D = 0.53) 3) Nursing Practical skill (= 4.41, S.D = 0.52) 4)Numerical analysis skills, communication and information technology skills (= 4.36, S.D = 0.57) 5) Cognitive Skills (= 4.34, S.D = 0.55) and 6) Knowledge (= 4.32, S.D = 0.53). The satisfaction of the nurses’employers on the competence of nurses graduated (Identity of nurses graduated from Boromarajonani College of Nursing Udonthani) was at high level (= 4.44, S.D = 0.51) and in each aspect, it was found that 1)Service Mind was at the highest level (= 4.50 S.D = 0.52 ) 2) Participation/Patient Right (  = 4.40, S.D = 0.49) and 3) Analytical Thinking (  = 4.36, S.D = 0.49)