IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/igg/jabim0/v2y2011i4p29-43.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

What Skill/Knowledge is Important to a Nursing Professional?

Author

Listed:
  • Li-Min Lin

    (Mei-Ho Institute of Technology, Taiwan)

  • Yi-Cheng Chen

    (National Taitung University, Taiwan)

  • Jen-Her Wu

    (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)

  • Robert D. Tennyson

    (University of Minnesota, USA)

Abstract

This study employed a survey instrument to investigate the knowledge topics that are important to a nursing professional. We asked 491 nursing professionals and managers in Taiwan what they thought about 47 educational topics. For each topic, the authors asked them how much they had learned about a given topic in their formal education, their current knowledge of the topic, and how important the topic has been in their career. Results indicate each knowledge topic’s importance, the amount learned in formal education programs, and the educational knowledge gap. The findings also show the amount currently known, current knowledge gap, and the amount learned (or forgotten) subsequent to education. The survey supports current perceptions about the importance of some topics, but it also highlights topics that are sometimes underemphasized or overemphasized. Efforts to develop nursing curricula or training programs for nursing professionals or students should consider the experience of practitioners in clinics and hospitals. Findings should be useful to hospital training departments and nursing educators in universities and colleges to refine or revise their curriculum design. Nursing professionals and students seeking continuing education will also be able to use the results for selecting courses for career enhancement.

Suggested Citation

  • Li-Min Lin & Yi-Cheng Chen & Jen-Her Wu & Robert D. Tennyson, 2011. "What Skill/Knowledge is Important to a Nursing Professional?," International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (IJABIM), IGI Global, vol. 2(4), pages 29-43, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jabim0:v:2:y:2011:i:4:p:29-43
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/jabim.2011100104
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:igg:jabim0:v:2:y:2011:i:4:p:29-43. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Journal Editor (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.igi-global.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.