「経験学習を基盤とした看護管理能力開発プログラム」に参加した就任初期の看護師長の経験学習の内容—経験学習実行度の高かった上位10名の経験学習ノートの分析

Contents of Experiential Learning among Nurse Managers in the Early Years of a Supervisory Role Who Participated in an Experiential Learning-based Program to Foster Competence among Nurse Managers: Analysis of Descriptions in Reflective Journals of 10 Nurse Managers Who Showed Obvious Changes in Their Scores on the Experiential Learning Scale

要旨

目的：「経験学習を基盤とした看護管理能力開発プログラム」（以下，プログラム）に参加した就任初期の看護師長のうち経験学習実行度の高かった上位10名の経験学習の内容を明らかにすることである．

方法：プログラムに参加した看護師長63名中，経験学習実行度の高かった上位10名が経験学習ノートに記述した合計41事例を，経験学習の段階ごとに質的帰納的に分析した．

結果：看護師長の経験学習の内容として，看護師長が取り組んだ「挑戦的な課題」は7カテゴリーを，「内省」した内容は6カテゴリーを，挑戦的な課題から「獲得した知識・スキル」は6カテゴリーを，「異なる状況での試行」は2カテゴリーを生成した．

結論：看護師長は，本研究の経験学習の内容を自分の看護管理実践に取り入れることで自分自身の経験学習を促進させることができると考える．今後，経験学習を応用した看護師長の育成に本研究の結果を活用できると考える．

Purpose: This study aimed to clarify the contents of experiential learning among 10 nurse managers in the early years of a supervisory role who participated in an experiential learningbased program to foster competence among nurse managers and showed obvious changes in their scores on the experiential learning scale after completing the program.

Methods: Sixty-three nurse managers participated in this experiential learning-based program, during which they wrote about their experiences in a reflective journal. Furthermore, they completed an experiential learning scale before and after the program. We focused on 10 nurse managers who showed obvious changes in their scale scores after completing the program. Data from 41 reflective journal entries written by these 10 nurse managers were analyzed qualitatively and subjected to descriptive analysis.

Result: Contents of experiential learning among nurse managers were categorized as follows: (1) seven categories of challenging tasks that nurse managers struggled with; (2) six categories of reflections of nurse managers; (3) six categories of knowledge and skills that nurse managers acquired through dealing with challenging tasks; and (4) two categories of attempts to apply new knowledge and skills in different situations.

Conclusion: Our results indicated the contents of experiential learning among nurse managers who showed obvious changes in their experiential learning scale scores. We believe nurse managers can promote experiential learning by incorporating the contents of this study into their nursing management practice. Furthermore, we believe that the results of our study are applicable to the development of programs for nurse managers that utilize experiential learning.