INFLUENCE OF TRAINING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF NURSING OFFICERS, IN NYERI COUNTY, KENYA

Jeremiah M. Ongori (), Musa Oluoch () and Ms. Maureen A. Adoyo ()

Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2019, vol. 4, issue 3, 45 - 56

Abstract: Purpose: The management of human resources in healthcare institution is essential to enable the delivery of efficient and effective medical services and to achieve patient satisfaction. Training and development is most effective in motivating and retaining high quality human resources within healthcare organization. This study therefore sought to establish the influence of training on the performance of nursing officers, in Nyeri County, Kenya. Methodology: This study adopted a cross sectional descriptive research design. The respondents constituted all nursing staffs and managers in Nyeri County Public Health facilities and at the County Director's Office. Stratified random sampling was used to come up with a sample of 248 respondents. Data was collected using questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used in the analysis of data with the help of SPSS. Chi-square analysis was used to establish relationships. Findings: The study found that training of nurses was conducted but there was a limitation in the diversity of approaches used. There was a significant relationship (χ2= 34.500, df=12, p=0.001, v=0.422) between training and the performance of nursing officers, in Nyeri County. The study concluded that training influences the performance of nursing officers, in Nyeri County, Kenya. Specifically, the lack of adequate training is a drawback in service delivery. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommends that training programs in the health sector should therefore be reviewed in order to employ more techniques in the training of nurses.

Keywords: Training; Health workers; Performance of Nursing Officers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://iprjb.org/journals/index.php/JHMN/article/view/956 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bdu:ojjhmn:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:45-56:id:956

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing from IPR Journals and Book Publishers
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chief Editor ().