title: The competencies expected of first-line nursing managers--an Australian context.
abstract: The purpose of this State-wide study was to identify the most important competencies expected of first-line nursing managers. A list of 168 competencies was compiled from the literature and submitted to a panel of 16 expert nursing administrators and academics whose task it was to identify and rank in order the 20 most important of these.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duffield
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009013:Morale; D009517:New South Wales; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012380:Role; D012718:Set, Psychology