• Ismat Ara Parvin

Nursing administration is the strategic management of nursing personnel, patient care, and facility resources through the support of regulating policies. Nurse administrators are responsible for ensuring that hospitals or other healthcare facilities operate in a safe and cost-effective manner. They achieve this through the management of financial and human resources, and through the supervision of nurses and other allied healthcare team members. In today’s ever-changing health care environment the role of nurse administrators are challenged by number of factors such as multi-generational workforce, the business of health care, ethics, competition for health care professionals, nursing turnover, nursing shortage, staff absenteeism etc. The study was conducted to find out the status of nurses knowledge about administrative management, to identify the problems of nurses knowledge about administrative management. The study was conducted at Dhaka district in Bangladesh. It was a cross-sectional descriptive type study. Purposive sampling method was used for the study. Total 400 registered nurses were selected from nursing colleges, institutes and hospitals for the study. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. Primary data were collected from the respondents of the study area. Secondary data were collected from books, research reports, journals, annual reports, Website of Ministry of Health and family planning internet etc. Questionnaire was developed use as data collection instrument. Data were collected by face-to-face interview by the investigator. All the data were checked, cleaned and edited after collection. Then those cleaned data were analyzed by computer program Microsoft Excel. The study revealed that nurses have average knowledge, practice, and negative attitude toward medication administration, which needs to be corrected. In some cases communication, unclear medication orders, workload and medication pancakes were the main factors associate with nurses’ knowledge regarding nursing administration. Nurses’ experiences and age also found to be inversely related to nurses’ knowledge regarding nursing administration. Nurses also reported that they do not receive enough in-service training and education related to nursing administration medication, administration and new medication in the field.

Nurse, Knowledge, Administration, Skill, Attitude, Management, Training, Education, Medication, Duty, Job, Experiences

"Study on Nurses Knowledge Regarding Nursing Administration in Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 12, page no.a944-a953, December-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412084.pdf

"Study on Nurses Knowledge Regarding Nursing Administration in Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 12, page no. ppa944-a953, December-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412084.pdf