Relation between Agile Healthcare Organization and Nursing Staff’s Job Enrichment

Background: Agile health care organization is proactive and purposeful answer to erratic andcontinuous alterations in the environment, which enables hospitals to continue and devolvedin competitive market. So, managers of healthcare organizations required to be significantlymore agile, flexible and provide the highest level of patient and nursing staff needs,expectations, and demands. Agile health care organization plays a mediating role to promoteprofessional growth and achievement of goals transition into advanced practice, and jobenrichment for nursing staff. Aim: To assess the relation between agile healthcareorganization and job enrichment of nursing staff. Design: Descriptive correlational researchdesign. Setting: Tanta University International Teaching Hospital .Sampling: All (n=41)head nurses and a stratified proportional random sample (n=286) of nursing staff. Tools: ToolI: agile healthcare organization questionnaire. Tool II: job enrichment questionnaire. Results:Nursing staff 56.3% showed high level of overall agile healthcare organization. Also 63.6%of nursing staff showed high level of overall job enrichment. A highly strong statisticalsignificant correlation between levels of overall agile healthcare organization and nursing staffjob enrichment at r=0.533 (p<0.001).Conclusion: There was a strong statistical significantcorrelation between overall agile healthcare organization and nursing staff job enrichment.Recommendation: Nursing administration required to provide periodical in-service trainingprograms to sustain nursing staff idea of remaining adaptable and agile in the currentcompetitive environment