Relationship between Nurse Managers' Facilitative Communication and Nurses' Self-esteem.
- Author:
Hee Shim JEONG
1
;
So Eun CHOI
;
Sang Dol KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing, The Catholic of Uijeongbu ST. Mary's Hospital, Uijeongbu, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Nurses;
Facilitative communication;
Self-esteem
- MeSH:
Humans;
Nurse Administrators;
Phenothiazines
- From:Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
2012;21(3):175-183
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nurse managers' facilitative communication as perceived by nurses and nurses' self-esteem. METHODS: The subjects were 256 staff nurses at B hospital of C University in Kyeonggi-do. The data were collected between December 1, 2009 and January 12, 2010. The collected data were analyzed using the SAS program through t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation coefficients. RESULTS: Nurses' self-esteem was higher when nurse managers perceived them as facilitative communicators in empathic understanding and genuineness subgroup of facilitative communication (p<.05). There was a positive correlation between nurse managers' facilitative communication and nurses' self-esteem(r=.15, p=.015). Also there was a positive correlation among the nurse managers' facilitative communication subgroups, empathic understanding; genuineness; concreteness(r=0.18, p=.004; r=0.18, p=.003; r=0.19, p=.002) and nurses' self-esteem. CONCLUSION: Nurse managers are in need of facilitative communication. Therefore, job education and training for improving nurse managers' communication skills particularly related to empathic understanding, genuineness and concreteness are required.
