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Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to identify the effect of first-line management functions on productivity of unit personnel through:-
Assessing the perception of head nurses about ranking order of management function.
Montioring head nurses individual actual time allocated to each function.
Measure unit productivity.
Find out relationship between performance of first-line management function and productivity of unit personnel The study was conducted in a sixteen general medical and surgical units at Mansoura University Hospital (1750 beds) from July (2003) to January (2004).The total sample of this study consists of three groups of subjects .The first group included all first-line managers (16) assigned to the selected inpatient units. The second group consisted of all nursing personnel currently assigned to the selected inpatient units during the study period (180). The third group included all patients hospitalized in the selected inpatient units for one month (1131) .
Four tools used for data collection .The first tool was Managerial functions sheet developed by revision of literature and modified by 7 expertise from 5 different universities, to identify the perception of first-line managers about consuming their time in management functions.
The second tool was observational checklist using the same items in the previous tool to estimate the actual time spent by first-line managers in management functions.
The third tool was Nursing Activity observation study sheet to estimate the amount of time that nurses devoted to various activities this tool originally developed by Department of Health Education and Welfare .
The fourth tool was patient Classification Assessment sheet developed by Nassar to classify patients into four care groups.
Data were collected by the researcher and 16 trained observers who were nurse intense from the Faculty of Nursing.
Data were collected by regular observation every 15 minutes of all nursing personnel assigned to work in the selected units for six consecutive days.