Situation of Knowledge Management in Nursing Colleges under Praboromarajchanok Institute in the Northeastern of Thailand
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Situation, knowledge management, nursing collegesAbstract
This mixed methods research aims to study the knowledge management situation in nursing colleges under Praboromarajchanok Institute (PBRI) in the Northeastern of Thailand. The research consists of a sample group: 254 nursing instructors and support personnel in 6 nursing colleges. The key informant is the deputy director, nursing instructors, and support staff. The research tool includes an organization’s knowledge management questionnaire, group discussion questions, and in-depth interviews, reviewed for content validity by five experts. The index of item-objective congruence ranged from 0.80 to 1.00. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was .85. Quantitative was analyzed by descriptive analysis and qualitative data was processed by content analysis.
The results indicated that the situation of knowledge management in nursing colleges under PBRI in the Northeastern of Thailand showed an overall performance average score was high level (x̅ = 4.31, S.D. 0.64). Considering each of the six aspects, they all had a high performance average score. The highest aspect is the administrator (x̅ = 4.37, S.D. 0.64), followed by communication (x̅ = 4.36, S.D. 0.63), learning (x̅ = 4.34, S.D. 0.63), personnel (x̅ = 4.33, S.D. 0.66), organization (x̅ = 4.32, S.D. 0.64) and information technology (x̅ = 4.18, S.D. 0.63) respectively. The key informant had views on knowledge management in each aspect regarding strengths and points that should be developed for applying in organization.
The results of this research will serve as the basic information for further development of the institute’s knowledge management model to become a learning organization.
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