Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to identify number of hours and ratio of time that nurses supervisors in King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, classified by specialty areas, spent on four aspects of role performance: administration, service, knowledge, and temporary assigned job. The subjects were 36 nurse supervisors. The nurse supervisors role performance questionnaire used in this study was developed by the researcher .Content validity has been tested by experts in the area, the internal consistency reliability was reported at 0.95. The Inter-rater reliability of the questionnaire was 0.85. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics.
The findings were as follows :
1. Nurse supervisors of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital worked 8 hours 47 minutes per day. They spent the largest amount of their time on administration, following by temporary assigned job, service, and knowledge (5.28 : 1.59 : 0.53 : 0.27 hour), respectively. In the aspect of administration, they spent the largest amount of time on directing, following by organizing, controlling, planning, and coordinating (2.22 : 1.10 : 0.49 : 0.42 0.25 hour), respectively,
2. Nurse supervisors, classified by specialty areas, who spent the largest amount of time on each aspect of role performance: administration were IPD (5.46 hours), service were emergency and trauma unit (1.07 hours), knowledge were neuro-psychiatric wards (0.37 hour), and temporary assigned job were neuro-psychiatric wards and operation room (2.06 hours).
3. A ratio of time that the nurse supervisors spent on four aspects of role performance including administration, service, knowledge, and temporary assigned job was equal to 63.36, 10.18, 5.27, and 21.18 %, respectively.
4. The ratio of time perceived by nurse supervisors ranking from the aspect with the largest ratio of amount of time, as a following: administration, service, temporary assigned job and knowledge (49.02 : 22.78 : 19.17 : 19.03 %), respectively