[Relationship Between Psychiatric Nurses' Self-Evaluation of Their Technical Skills and Support From Others in the...

We conducted a questionnaire survey of psychiatric nurses to clarify the relationship between their self-evaluation of their technical skills and support from others. We obtained valid responses from 578 of these nurses. Factor analysis was used to extract support factors for five types of professionals: supervisors, seniors, peers, juniors, and other professionals in the workplace. The results demonstrated that even in a psychiatric nursing field consisting of nurses of various ages, the structure of support was similar to that in a previous study of young and mid-career employees in the workplace in Japanese companies. The results also showed that the self-evaluation of technical skills was higher for those who received psychological support from their seniors and work support from other professions. The results also revealed that the self-evaluation of technical skills was lower for those who received psychological support from their peers.