Organizational Characteristics and Staffing in Long-Term Care
ABSTRACT
With the world trend, the structure of society changes and the aging population rapidly increases. Recently, in Taiwan, the government and the professional have been concerning more about the long-term care issue. However, how to make sure the quality of long-term care is rather a serious and necessary agenda. The purpose of this dissertation focuses on the organizational characteristics and staffing in the long-term care.
Basing on the Donabedian¡¦s quality management model, the framework of this study has therefore been constructed. The researcher decided to use questionnaire to analyze the nursing homes and nursing aides in Kaohsiung. Data was collected in July 2001. And the sample amount of nursing home in Kaohsiung is 35, completed by 34 / 35 (97.14%). In the other way, the nursing aides were completed by 209 / 252 (82.50%). The statistics methods are descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression.
The results of this dissertation show that the nursing homes in Kaohsiung are unique about their resource distribution. There are 175 nursing homes, while one-fifth of them locate in Kaohsiung. Moreover, most of these nursing homes are freestanding. These situation makes the nursing home in Kaohsiung differ from other districts. We also find that the average of size is 41.59 beds, the average of occupancy rate is 79.08%, the job satisfaction of nursing aides is quite high and has turnover rate 1.78%. Moreover, organizational characteristics have positive impact on turnover rate.
Finally, we hope our study would provide a new thinking way for the further study and improve the quality of health care system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0625102-222208 |
| Date | 25 June 2002 |
| Creators | SHU, Shan |
| Contributors | Bih-Shiaw Jaw, Shu-Chuan Yeh, Shyh-Jer Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0625102-222208 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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