چکیده:
Nursing tacit knowledge is a knowledge that is produced inside the mind of nurses and not saved in any databases. The main challenge of nursing knowledge management is transferring tacit knowledge inside the mind of nurses to the others – especially scholars and researchers. This study evaluates personal, organizational, and technological factors affecting the tacit knowledge transfer among nursing experts. It also assesses the most important ways of tacit knowledge transfer among hospital nurses. This study applied survey method. The population was all nursing experts of Bushehr governmental hospitals nurses which were 480 and finally 215 nurses were selected as the sample. Data collection tool included a researcher-made questionnaire. Descriptive and analytical statistics tests were used. It was revealed that the most important way of tacit knowledge transfer among nursing experts was participating in continuing educational courses. Findings indicated that the most important personal factor affecting tacit knowledge transfer was job security; most important organizational factor was rewards system; and most important technological factor was independent physical environment and educational technologies.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Investigating Methods of Transferring Tacit Knowledge among Nursing Experts of Iranian Hospitals Leila Dehghani Faculty Member of Medical Library & Information Sciences Department, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran leiladehghani Hyahoo.
This study evaluates personal, organizational, and technological factors affecting the tacit knowledge transfer among nursing experts.
First, the most important methods of nursing knowledge acquiring were determined in nursing departments of Bushehr hospitals in Lan. Then personal, organizational, and technological barriers in transferring tacit knowledge have been investigated.
Data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that involved three parts: first, demographic information like age, gender, work experiences, and employment statues; second, knowledge transfer methods; and third, effective factors to transfer tacit knowledge in these three categories: personal factors, organi National factors, and technological factors.
2) What are the most important personal, organizational, and technological factors affecting the transfer of tacit knowledge among Bushehr hospitals nurses?
Average scores of personal factors in female were more than male (P Findings by the present study showed that job security is the most effectiveness personal factors; also, physical environment independent of the working environment and educational technology facilities are the most effectiveness factors in transferring tacit knowledge among nurses.
001) but there was no significant relationship between technological and organizational factors affecting the transfer of tacit knowledge, and nurses' experiences.
These cases and results of this research indicate that protecting job security among nurses and their job growth in hospital environment is one of the most important factors affecting the transfer of tacit knowledge.