M.Cur. / A staffing programme does not exist in a private hospital that compiles with the criteria cost effectiveness and quality nursing care. For this reason a study was undertaken to develop a staffing programme that would facilitate cost-effectiveness as well as quality nursing care. The nursing managers' role is not only to maintain cost-effectiveness but also to facilitate wholeness in patients and nursing staff. To achieve wholeness an exploratory. descriptive instrumental study was conducted and the Nursing Theory of Wholeness was used as a foundation for this study. Various research techniques were used such as scheduled observation, a structured questionnaire, nursing audit and a semi structured interviewing technique to quantify results. An analysis was conducted retrospectively to verify the statistical significance of a cost effective staffing programme. A staffing programme was designed consisting of seven steps to provide a basis for validity and reliability of the programme. The staffing programme proved to be cost-effective and proved to be statistically significant and shows a significant difference on a I% significance level (p = <0,003). The most important conclusion made is that valid, reliable staffing programme was designed for a nursing service in the private hospital. The staffing programme proved to be easily comprehended, useful, and relevant to its purpose. Cost-effectiveness was proved. A patient questionnaire was implemented to test the construct quality nursing. Partial validity of the construct quality nursing was confirmed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:11214 |
| Date | 26 May 2014 |
| Creators | Lombard, Sylvia-Anne |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Johannesburg |
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