Aspects of Nursing Management Influencing Nurses Interpersonal Competency at Inpatient Unit of BrigJend H. Hassan Basri Public Hospital in Kandangan, South Borneo

Abstract

Nurse’s Interpersonal competency is nurse’s skill to perform interpersonal relationship with patients by providing friendliness, politeness, attention, and stability. Low interpersonal competency of Nurses at Inpatient Unit is a main problem which must be handled by the management of BrigJend H. Hassan Basri Public Hospital in Kandangan. The aim of this research was to investigate the aspects of nursing management, which influence the nurse’s interpersonal competency. The results of this research showed that most of the respondents had high interpersonal competencies (30.9 %, good leadership (69.1 %), good organizing (63.2 %), good monitoring (52.9 %), and good work environment (33.8 %). Based on bivariate analysis, variables of leadership, monitoring, motivating, and work environment had a significant relationship with nurse’s interpersonal competency at Inpatient Unit of the hospital (p < 0.05). The result of multivariate analysis revealed that variables of monitoring (p = 0.068; Exp B: 3.497), and work environment (p = 0.007 and Exp B: 5.536) together influenced the nurse’s interpersonal satisfaction at Inpatient Unit B Sumber Utama : www.mikm.undip.ac.id