Abstract

An increasing demand for quality of clinical service and safety of clinical procedures in hospitals has become a burden to healthcare staff. Training resources is sometimes wrongly allocated and are inadequate to meet the nurses' actual needs. No study was conducted to explore self-perceived training needs from senior level managers towards three domains: personal growth, professional development and services development. A cross-sectional survey study was conducted from 3rd to 23rd August 2015 in Hong Kong to explore self-perceived training needs from 62 senior nurse managers towards three domains: personal growth, professional development and services development. The findings suggested that senior level managers need a variety of trainings to achieve a high performed leader. The managerial performance characteristics was correlated to its training needs (r = -0.39, p = 0.002) and the professional performance characteristics was correlated to its training needs (r = -0.38, p = 0.003). Nursing professional development specialist can base on a structural training framework to meet their needs in the upcoming 3 years.

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