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Nurse's perceptions of their group goal attainment capability and professional autonomy: a pilot study
Anne Marie H Bularzik1, Susan Tullai-McGuinness, Christina Leibold Sieloff
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Aim:
A pilot study to examine staff nurses' perceptions of, and relationships between, group goal attainment capability and professional autonomy.
Background:
A nursing group's capability to employ appropriate nursing interventions leads to improvement in patient outcomes. Nurses' goal attainment capability plays a role in achieving high-quality patient outcomes and may be related to professional autonomy.
Method:
Staff nurses (N = 90) in one community hospital completed the Sieloff-King Assessment of Group Goal Attainment Capability within Organizations and the Nursing Activity Scale instrument.
Results:
Staff nurses reported high goal attainment capability and high professional autonomy, and a positive significant but weak correlation (r = 0.24, P < 0.05) was found between nurses' perceptions of group goal attainment capability and perceptions of professional autonomy. Three of the eight group goal attainment subscales were positively correlated with professional autonomy including: group leaders' goal attainment capability competency, goals/outcomes competency and goal attainment capability perspective.
Conclusion:
While three subscales of goal attainment capability were significant, the correlations were weak between professional autonomy and group leader's goal attainment competency, goals/outcome competency and goal attainment perspective.
Implications For Nursing Management:
Nurse managers can play a key role in nurses' group goal attainment capability and perceived professional autonomy.
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