Self-Awareness on Leadership of Nurse in Trang Hospital

Abstract

This research aimed to study the Self-Awareness on Leadership. The sample size was 222 nurses working at Trang hospital. The research tool was a questionnaire consisting of two parts: 1) demographic data i.e. age, gender, marital status,  educational level, job position, work experience, ward / department, and 2) leadership assessment including five dimensions, namely 1) driving force with determination, 2) Emotional Intelligence, 3) trust/empowerment, 4) conceptualization, and 5) systematic  thinking. The reliability of the awareness questionnaires (Cronbach’s  Alpha Coefficient) were.72. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic. The results showed that most of them (96.46%) were female, aged between 26 and    30 years old (42.92%), single (50.88%), had a bachelor's degree   or equivalent (99.12%),  had 5 years working experience in the current position (14.60%) = Max = 24 years , Min = 1 year ). The majority of the nurses worked in Surgery department (79.09%). Overall, Self-Awareness on Leadership of Nurse in Trang Hospital was at a moderate level (= 2.93, SD= 0.66). And all dimensions of the leadership was at a moderate level as well; the highest mean score was driving force with determination ( = 3.22, SD = 0.64), followed by systematic  thinking ( = 3.03, SD = 0.61) and the lowest mean score was  Emotional Intelligence ( = 2.80, SD = 0.64) and conceptualization ( = 2.80, SD = 0.79).