TITLE:
Views Regarding Management Skills Required Currently and in the Future for Middle Managers in Perinatal Medicine: Their Differences Depending Working Position in Advanced Midwives
AUTHORS:
Megumi Abe, Toshiyuki Yasui, Yukie Matsuura
KEYWORDS:
Advanced Midwives, Nursing Middle Managers, Management Skills, Working-Position
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Vol.12 No.1,
January
17,
2022
ABSTRACT: Similar
to any other discipline/field, management skills are important in perinatal
nursing/medicine. What kinds of management skills are required/important
currently and also in the future? The view for this might be different
according to the present position of midwives. We here attempted to determine
this; we divided study population into three (head nurses, assistant head
nurses and advanced midwives). A self-administered questionnaire survey was
conducted for 1652 advanced midwives in hospitals in Japan during 2018 and
2019. Scores in 8 items showed significant differences among the three groups.
The skill with the largest difference among the three groups was the ability to
participate in and provide support for social activity. Although higher levels
of management skills will be required for nursing managers in the next
generation, the levels differ depending on current working positions in
advanced midwives.