Relations among the Decision Making Style, Self Leadership and Communication Competence of Visiting Nurses

현장에서 직접 대상자의 가정을 방문하여 요구사정에서부터 중재, 평가에 이르기까지 간호제공의 전 과정을 수행해야 하는 방문간호사의 업무수행 능력을 제고의 관점에서 의사결정 유형과 셀프리더십 그리고 의사소통 능력간의 관련성을 분석하였다. 방문간호사들의 의사결정 유형과 의사소통 능력과 셀프리더십은 모두 상관관계가 있었으며 서로 유기적인 관계가 있음을 확인하였다. 방문간호사의 의사결정 유형은 합리적 유형이 가장 많은 것으로 나타났으며, 이와 관련하여 셀프리더십 정도와 의사소통 능력 측면에서도 합리적 의사결정 유형에서 가장 높은 점수를 나타냈다. 합리적 의사결정 유형은 의사결정 유형 중 가장 바람직한 것으로 논의되어 온 바 방문간호사가 높은 문제해결 능력을 가지고 있음을 실증적으로 보여준 사례로 해석할 수 있다. The aim of this study was to explore relations among the decision making style, self leadership and communication competence of visiting nurses. The research design was a descriptive survey study, and 219 people were selected through convenience sampling among the visiting nurses who worked in the 28 community based health care centers. The most frequent decision making style of visiting nurses was a rational style. The scores of self leadership and communication competence of visiting nurses were also showed the highest score when the visiting nurse had a rational decision making style. The statistical significant correlations were found among the decision making style, self leadership and communication competence. The results of this study were useful to develop jop-training programs for visiting nurses to enhance their problem-solving abilities. We suggest more various education programs to increase the visiting nurse's self leadership and communication competence will be implemented and refined protocols according to situations will be developed, too.