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. 2019 May 13;5:2377960819831468. doi: 10.1177/2377960819831468

Table 1.

Attributes of Managerial Competence of First-Line Nurse Managers.

Authors Attributes of managerial competence Items
International literature
 Chase (1994) Technical skill, human skill, conceptual skill, leadership skill, and financial management 53 items
 Donaher (2004) Developing self, recruiting personnel, developing employees others, utilizing knowledge and skills of each employee, and retaining employees for organizational success 58 items
 DeOnna (2006) Promoting staff retention, recruiting staff, facilitating staff development, performing supervisory responsibilities, ensuring patient safety and quality care, conducting daily unit operations, managing fiscal planning, facilitating interpersonal, group and organizational communication, leading quality improvement initiatives, promoting professional practice model, and developing self. 93 items
 American Organization of Nurse Executives (2005) The science (managing the business), the art (leading the people), and the leader within (creating the leader in yourself) 115 items
 Pillay (2008) Specific health-care skills, planning, organizing, leading, control, legal and ethical issues, and self-management 51 items
 Mathena (2002) Interpersonal skills, clinical skills, technical skills, financial skills, staff development skills, resource management, political skills, and general skills 8 dimensions—No items identified
 Krajcovicova, Caganova, and Cambal (2012) Knowing the organization, leading and managing people, managing resources, and communicating effectively 4 dimensions—No items identified
 American Nurses Credentialing Center (2006) Organization and structure, economics, human resources, ethics, and legal regulatory 5 dimensions—No items identified
 V. C. Sherman (1980) Planning, organizing, staffing, communicating, decision-making, as well as controlling 6 dimensions—No items identified
Total: 370 items and 23 dimensions
Indonesian literature
 Department of Health (1999) Planning, directing and implementing, evaluating, controlling, and researching, managing resource in implementing nursing care (assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating) 31 items
 Almidawati (2015) Planning, organizing, directing, evaluating, and controlling 5 dimensions—no items identified
 Warsito (2006) Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling 5 dimensions—no items identified
 Wahyuni (2007) Planning, staffing, directing, evaluating, and quality control 5 dimensions—no items identified
 Pabuti (2001) Staffing nursing management, nursing unit management, nursing care management, education, and staff development management 4 dimensions—no items identified
 Indonesian Nurse Managers Association (2016) Professional practice, ethics, legal, culture sensitive, nursing care and management, planning, organizing, directing, staffing, controlling, monitoring and evaluation, leadership, professional, personal, quality development, nursing education, and soft skills 100 items
 Indonesian National Nurses Association (2012) Managing resources fairly and transparent, being a role model, and applying theory and model of nursing to improve performance 8 items
Total: 139 items and 19 dimensions
Expert interview
 Results of experts interview Self-management, persuade or convince others, integrity, flexibility, creativity, communicate effectively, decision-making, vision direction, acceleration, human resource management, continuing education, policy management, quality oriented, networking, budgeting, conflict management, teamwork, negotiation, information management, and customer oriented 20 items

Total of all items: 529 items and 42 dimensions.