1Master Program of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Andalas University
2Faculty of Nursing, Andalas University
Online published on 26 September, 2019.
The managers ability to motivate, influence, and communicate with the will determine the effectiveness of the manager. Implementation of management functions Requiring competence of the head nurse as firstline managers in the inpatient unit. This study was cross sectional among103 nu rses in the RSUD Major General HA ThalibKerinci. This study aimed to determine the relationship of head nurse competency in performing management functions and nurse's performance in the implementation of patient safety. This research results that the competence heads of the organization are (p = 0.007, α = 0.05) and directing (p = 0.014: α = 0.05), with most of the factors associated with the performance nurses in the implementation of patient safety was organizing (p = 0.022: α = 0.05). Head Nurse need to constantly improve competency in performing nursing management functions primarily on organizing and directing function in improving the performance of nurses in the implementation of patient safety goals.
Competence Head of the room, the nurse performance, patient safety
