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Relation between spiritual intelligence and clinical competency of nurses in Iran

BACKGROUND: Clinical competency is one of the most important requirements in nursing profession, based on which nurses are assessed. To obtain an effective and improved form of clinical competency, several factors are observed and monitored by the health educational systems. Among these observed fac...

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Autores principales: Karimi-Moonaghi, Hossein, Gazerani, Akram, Vaghee, Saeed, Gholami, Hassan, Salehmoghaddam, Amir Reza, Gharibnavaz, Raheleh
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793250
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.170002
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author Karimi-Moonaghi, Hossein
Gazerani, Akram
Vaghee, Saeed
Gholami, Hassan
Salehmoghaddam, Amir Reza
Gharibnavaz, Raheleh
author_facet Karimi-Moonaghi, Hossein
Gazerani, Akram
Vaghee, Saeed
Gholami, Hassan
Salehmoghaddam, Amir Reza
Gharibnavaz, Raheleh
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description BACKGROUND: Clinical competency is one of the most important requirements in nursing profession, based on which nurses are assessed. To obtain an effective and improved form of clinical competency, several factors are observed and monitored by the health educational systems. Among these observed factors, spiritual intelligence is considered as one of the most significant factors in nurses’ success and efficacy. In this study, it is aimed to determine the spiritual intelligence status and its relationship with clinical competency. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The descriptive–correlational research was carried out on 250 nurses in Mashhad educational hospitals, selected by multi-stage sampling. Demographic, clinical competency, and spiritual intelligence questionnaires were used for data collection and 212 questionnaires were analyzed. RESULTS: About 53.3% of nurses obtained above average scores in spiritual intelligence. Clinical competency was evaluated by both self-evaluation and head nurse evaluation methods. Most nurses (53.8%) were having good level of clinical competency based on self-evaluation, 48.2% were at average level based on head nurse evaluation, and 53.3% were at average level based on overall score. A significant correlation was found between spiritual intelligence and clinical competency. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, the positive significant correlation between nurses’ spiritual intelligence and their clinical competency is investigated. Because of the positive effects of spiritual intelligence on nurses’ clinical competency and quality of care, it is recommended to develop nurses’ spiritual intelligence during their education and by way of continuous medical education.
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spelling pubmed-47006842016-01-20 Relation between spiritual intelligence and clinical competency of nurses in Iran Karimi-Moonaghi, Hossein Gazerani, Akram Vaghee, Saeed Gholami, Hassan Salehmoghaddam, Amir Reza Gharibnavaz, Raheleh Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Clinical competency is one of the most important requirements in nursing profession, based on which nurses are assessed. To obtain an effective and improved form of clinical competency, several factors are observed and monitored by the health educational systems. Among these observed factors, spiritual intelligence is considered as one of the most significant factors in nurses’ success and efficacy. In this study, it is aimed to determine the spiritual intelligence status and its relationship with clinical competency. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The descriptive–correlational research was carried out on 250 nurses in Mashhad educational hospitals, selected by multi-stage sampling. Demographic, clinical competency, and spiritual intelligence questionnaires were used for data collection and 212 questionnaires were analyzed. RESULTS: About 53.3% of nurses obtained above average scores in spiritual intelligence. Clinical competency was evaluated by both self-evaluation and head nurse evaluation methods. Most nurses (53.8%) were having good level of clinical competency based on self-evaluation, 48.2% were at average level based on head nurse evaluation, and 53.3% were at average level based on overall score. A significant correlation was found between spiritual intelligence and clinical competency. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, the positive significant correlation between nurses’ spiritual intelligence and their clinical competency is investigated. Because of the positive effects of spiritual intelligence on nurses’ clinical competency and quality of care, it is recommended to develop nurses’ spiritual intelligence during their education and by way of continuous medical education. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4700684/ /pubmed/26793250 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.170002 Text en Copyright: © Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793250
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.170002
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