A Study to Find Out the Gap Between Staff Nurses Clinical Performances with Structural Facilities &Challenges in Selected Medical Ward, Kolkata

Nurses’ working conditions of nurses and job satisfaction in India is limited and poor. A productive environment in the hospital unit is very essential as a prerequisite particularly, when considering the services provided in the patient care unit should fulfil all the structural facilities so that the employees can overcome the challenges.. A Non-experimental descriptive study was done to find out the relationship between structural facilities& challenges and staff nurses clinical performances in selected Medical ward , Kolkata. The purpose of the study are to find out the relation between staff nurses clinical performances with structural facilities and challenges. Conceptual framework was based on nursing work -life model ((Laschinger& Leiter 2006). Non-probability purposive sampling technique have been applied on 100 subjects selected from Medical wards of N.R.S. Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata .The data were collected by developed and validated structured questionnaire and observational checklist. Reliability was established by Split-Half and Inter-Rater method (.76). The study revealed that the, Standard deviation for structural facilities and challenges is 3.343 and Clinical performance is 2.266. Standard deviation of structural facilities and challenges seemed to be more dispersed than those of clinical performance. So there may be a gap between the staff nurses clinical performances with structural facilities and challenges ,S.D. of support were 1.160, Opportunity were 0.778, Access to resources were, 1.266 and Access to information were 1.048 respectively. It means access to resources area scoring highest i.e 1.266 and opportunity area scoring lowest i.e 0.778 in standard deviation. A direct relationship (positive correlation) between structural facilities and challenges and Clinical performance as the value of correlation coefficient is 0.310 which indicates that structural facilities and challenges and clinical performance increase together and decrease together. The findings of the study can be implicated in nursing practice, nursing administration and nursing research. The recommendations are offered that the study can be replicated on larger sample.