Purpose: This study was done to identify the effects of communication competence and nursing professionalism on job performance among home healthcare nurses. Methods: The participants were 116 home healthcare nurses working at the hospitals. Data were collected from February 11 to March 22, 2019 and were analyzed with Multiple Regression Analysis. Results: The most influential factors on job performance were hospital type (β=-.21, p=.006), communication competence (β=.30, p=.001) and nursing professionalism (β=.32, p<.001) which together explained up to 40% of job performance. Conclusion To improve nursing performance of home healthcare nurses, it is necessary to develop programs and strategies to enhance communication competence and nursing professionalism.

This study was conducted to analyze and clarify the concept of job crafting in nursing. Methods: Using the concept analysis framework of Walker & Avant (2014). 190 articles about job crafting were selected for this study. Results: Job crafting is defined as a series of activities where individuals self-directedly reorganize their jobs according to their capabilities. The attributes of job crafting include job understanding, a positive attitude towards trying, self-directed response, and physical change or giving meaning. The antecedents of job crafting include personality (openness to experience, positive psychological capital, motivation), job-related factors(skill variety, task significance, task identity), and organizational factors (empowering leadership). The consequences of job crafting are organizational commitment, work engagement, job satisfaction, and well-being. Conclusion: The results of this study are meaningful as they explore the concept and attributes of job crafting in the area of nursing. Furthermore, based on the results of this study, the development of standardized tools for measuring nurse-perceived job crafting and educational programs for enhancing job crafting is recommended.

PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to compare confidence in practice of intermittent gavage tube feeding and participants' satisfaction by three types of feedback; professor verbal feedback, professor feedback with smartphone video, and peer feedback with smartphone video. In addition, frequently failed items in the intermittent gavage tube feeding procedure were analyzed. METHODS: Data were collected from a convenience sample of 78 nursing college students in November 2014. Students were randomly assigned to the control group, experimental group I (smartphone video with professor feedback) or group II (smartphone video with peer feedback). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including chi-square test, ANOVA, and Scheffe test with SPSS 21.0. RESULTS: Confidence in practice of intermittent gavage tube feeding and satisfaction with feedback were highest in experimental group I that had professor feedback with smartphone video. For the procedure, the most frequently failed item was giving an explanation to patients about the purpose and the procedure of tube feeding. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that professor verbal feedback with smartphone video is the most benefit to the nursing students in acquiring core nursing practice skills.
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