Lederutdanning blant sykepleieledere – gir det økt opplevelse av mestring og trivsel?

Background: The leader role in the health service has been changing a lot during the last years. From taking part in patient care, the leaders are now responsible for finance, systems, human resources and administration. New management thinking (NPM) has emerged and this together with change in legislation (NOU 1997:2) has influenced how the leaders perform their jobs. To manage the role as leader it is needed competences and skills. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine how many of the nurse leaders had further formel education in leadership and how this education influence the feeling of mastery and satisfaction. The hypotheses are that leaders with management education master their job better and are more satisfied then those who have no further education. Material: The respondents are midlevel nurse leaders in a hospital. 145 questionnaires were sent to leaders at somatic units (98) and to leaders at psychiatrics units (47). 100 questionnaires were included in the study and the response rate was 69 %. Method: The study is a survey with a questionnaire in four parts. Part one and four contain demographic variables. ”General Self-Efficacy Scale” and ”Mastery scale” were used to measure degree of mastery. ”Job Satisfaction Questionnaire” was used to measure degree of job satisfaction. Results: More than half of the respondents, (61, 6 %) have further education in leadership. Leaders with further education feel greater mastery than they without (p<0.05), but there are no significant differences in satisfaction. Numbers of year (experience) as leader show no positive relation to mastery and satisfaction. Leaders who had not considered to quit their job feel greater mastery (p<0.05) and satisfaction (p<0.05) than those who had considered to quit. Between gender there are no significant differences in perception of mastery, but women are more satisfied with their job than men (p