COMMUNICATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL ABILITIES IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF MILITARY MEDICAL INSTITUTION PERSONNEL

Abstract

The article examines the place and role of communicative and organizational abilities within the structure of socio-psychological competence among military medical institution personnel. The research establishes that socio-psychological competence represents an integrative characteristic of a personality, encompassing a system of knowledge, skills, aptitudes, and personal qualities organized into cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and value-motivational components. The study elucidates the specificity of professional communication in military medical environments, characterized by elevated stress levels, temporal constraints, necessity for military subordination adherence, and heightened responsibility for decision-making. Statistically significant differences between nurses and physicians have been identified in terms of key indicators of communicative and organizational abilities. The findings demonstrate that nurses exhibit a higher level of communicative abilities compared to physicians that correlates with the distinctive features of their professional role involving more prolonged and direct patient contact. Concurrently, physicians display superior organizational abilities relative to nurses, attributable to the specificity of their practice associated with clinical decision-making, treatment planning, and medical personnel coordination. The research synthesizes regulatory mechanisms of communication, wherein physicians demonstrate significantly higher levels of self-control in communication, listening skills, and ability to articulate thoughts compared to nurses. Based on the research results, key factors forming the structure of socio-psychological competence of military medical personnel have been identified, accounting for the specificity of professional roles. For nurses, such factors include adaptive interpersonal competence, practical resilience and organizational abilities, nonverbal sensitivity, and effective communication. For physicians emotional regulation and hardiness in professional contexts, reflexive-adaptive competence, and resilience in complex and problematic situations are outlined. Conclusions are drawn regarding the necessity of a differentiated approach to developing communicative and organizational abilities of medical personnel, taking into account the specificity of their professional activities.

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