A Study of Opthalmic Nurse Competency, Government University Hospital

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the ophthalmic nurse competency based on career ladder, government university hospital, using Ethnographic Delphi Future Research (EDFR) technique. Participants were 19 eye experts including physicians, nursing administrators, advanced practice nurses, staff nurses and professors. The research design: all experts were asked to describe the functional competency of ophthalmic nurse, government university hospital. The data were analyzed by using median and interquartile range to summarize competency.
The result of the study presented that the ophthalmic nurse competency based on career ladder were classified in to 4 components as follow 1) Ophthalmological nursing 2) Risk management 3) Providing information and counseling 4) Quality improvement
The competency of nurses in each level has the same major competency but different detail as
follows:
Nurse level 1 Provides nursing care at a basic level.
Nurse level 2 Provide specialized eye care in patients with no complex problems.
Nurse level 3 Applies advanced knowledge for caring complicated eye patients.
Nurse level 4 Create ophthalmic nursing research and innovations.
Nurse level 5 Able to be a good model in specialized eye nursing care and develop ophthalmic nursing research and innovations.