Kepala ruangan mempunyai tanggung jawab untuk mengontrol kegiatan keperawatan di ruangan. Oleh karena itu kepala ruangan seharusnya memiliki kompetensi yang baik Studi ini menggunakan desain kuantitatif dengan cross sectional dimana tuiuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menggali dan mengidentifikasi faktor - faktor yang berhubungan dengan kemampuan kepala ruangan termasuk karakteristik individu dan organisasi.Pengumpulan data dilakukan di 7 rumah sakit di wilayah Tangerang dengan responden 74 kepala ruangan. Setelah mendapat izin dari rumah sakit, responden diberikan kuesioner untuk diisi.Analisa Chi Square digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan kemampuan kepala ruangan. Uji regresi logistik digunakan untuk mengetahui faktor yang paling berhubungan dengan kemampuan kepala ruangan dan analisa multivariat dilakukan dengan menggunakan uji regresi logistik.Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan hubungan antara karakteristik organisasi dengan kemampuan kepala ruangan. Hasil uji menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan antara uraian tugas, struktur organisasi dan kebijakan organisasi dengan kemampuan kepala ruangan dengan P < 0,05. Sementara karakteristik individual tidak berhubungan dengan kemampuan kepala ruangan dengan P > 0,05. Faktor yang dominan berhubungan dengan kemampuan kepala ruangan adalah jenis kelamin dan struktur organisasi.

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Factors that Associated with the Competency of Nursing Unit Managers in Hospitals in Tangerang Nursing unit manager as lower managers have responsibility to control nursing activities in the ward. Therefore lower managers should have a good competency. This study is quantitative study with cross sectional design that has been cultivated, to explore and to identify factors associated with competency of nursing unit managers including individuals and organizational characteristics.

Analysis of this study consisted of univariat, bivariat and multivariat. This research use categorical data in independent and dependent variables. Therefore bivariat analysis was Chi - Square and logistic regression as multivariate analysis.

Some of variables has been tested, included of individual `s factors, such as: age, sex, leng of work, formal education, marital status; and organization's characteristic, such as: job description; organization structure, organizational roles and resources. The results have shown the relationship between organization's characteristic with competency of nursing unit managers. From independent variables that have tested by Chi-Square, its just 3 variables have associated with the competency of nursing unit managers; they are job description, organization structure and organizational policy with P-Value - less than 0,05. Meanwhile individual's characteristic has not associated with the competency of nursing unit managers. The factors that have dominant associated with the competency of nursing unit managers were sex and organizational structure. Hopefully this result could use in chosen nursing unit managers.