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• TITLE: Views Regarding Management Skills Required Currently and in the Future for Middle Managers in Perinatal Medicine: Their Differences Depending Working Position in Advanced Midwives

  AUTHORS: Megumi Abe, Toshiyuki Yasui, Yukie Matsuura

  KEYWORDS: Advanced Midwives, Nursing Middle Managers, Management Skills, Working-Position

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol.12 No.1, January 17, 2022

  ABSTRACT: Similar to any other discipline/field, management skills are important in perinatal nursing/medicine. What kinds of management skills are required/important currently and also in the future? The view for this might be different according to the present position of midwives. We here attempted to determine this; we divided study population into three (head nurses, assistant head nurses and advanced midwives). A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted for 1652 advanced midwives in hospitals in Japan during 2018 and 2019. Scores in 8 items showed significant differences among the three groups. The skill with the largest difference among the three groups was the ability to participate in and provide support for social activity. Although higher levels of management skills will be required for nursing managers in the next generation, the levels differ depending on current working positions in advanced midwives.