TRAINING NEEDS ASSESMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSE IN INDONESIA
Juli Dwi Prasetyono1), Henny Permatasari2) ,Agus Setiawan2), Sigit Mulyono2), Tantut Susanto3), Muchtaruddin Mansyur4),Anneli Vauhkonen5), Hannele Turunen5), Terhi Saaranen5)

1Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
Email: jprasety[at]uef.fi
*Email correspondence: jprasety[at]uef.fi
2Faculty of Nursing, University of Indonesia
Email: hennyp[at]gmail.com- a-setiawan[at]ui.ac.id , sigit[at]ui.ac.id
3Faculty of Nursing, University of Jember
Email: tantut.s_psik[at]unej.ac.id
4Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia
Email: muchtaruddin.mansyur[at]ui.ac.id
5Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
Email: anneli.vauhkonen[at]uef.fi- hannele.turunen[at]uef.fi- terhi.saaranen[at]uef.fi

Abstract

The rise of continuous professional development in healthcare has created a need to recognize the potential training needs of healthcare workers including occupational health nurses. This study aimed to establish the job profile and identify the training needs of occupational health nurses working in both corporate clinics and health services. This study used a descriptive method with a cross sectional approach and a sampling technique of simple random sampling to 43 respondents. Data collection used the Indonesian version of the Hennessy-Hicks Training Needs Analysis Questionnaire. This instrument consists of five sub-sections or dimensions including research/ audit, communication/ cooperation, clinical skills/ tasks, administration, and management/ supervision. The training needs of the occupational health nurses were examined using a series of unrelated t-tests. Significant training needs corresponded to 43 questionnaire items in all respondents. The majority of nurses believed that research/audit should be prioritized over other training at (2.07), followed by clinical task competency (1.65), management (1.65), resilience promotion (1.32), communication/collaboration (1.22) and administration (0.58). The results of this survey indicate that healthcare professionals need further training. This study also highlights the importance of training for Indonesian occupational health nurses, especially in the area of research/auditing. Providing relevant training information and monitoring can be an effort made for hospitals and nursing institutions as a solution to meet the training needs of nurses.

Keywords: Occupational health nurse, needs analysis, health training, health human resources

Topic: Occupational Health