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The Effect from Working Stress and Support System to Health-care Workers¡¦ Working Attitude during SARS Outbreak

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory disease (SARS) in Taiwan on April, 2003 caused the life of Taiwanese out of order and panic. The health-care workers feel anxious and panic. The downside emotion even caused escape and mass resignations in hospitals.
SARS tested how good every individual and the leadership of every hospital, area, and nation can handle crisis. Can hospitals offer enough support and a safe working environment to their health-care workers? Does the working attitude and willing of the health-care workers relate to how much awareness of the support from the hospitals? The purpose of the research is to find out during SARS, the working stress for anesthetists, the relation of support from the hospitals and the working attitude and willing to take care of patients from the anesthetists. Hope this can be a reference to management level in medical care organization
The conclusion of this research:
1.The management level in hospitals should apply different HR strategies to different health-care workers as every health-care worker has different personality. The difference makes his commitment to organization, profession and willing to take care of patients different.
2.During SARS, the awareness from anesthetists to organization support includes four sides. They are safe support, emotional support, fair support and respect support. The four sides have different affects on anesthetists¡¦ working attitude. To organization commitment, the most important is safe support and then ¡K. Support, fair support and respect support.
3. If health-care workers can feel enough support from the organization, they will feedback their commitment to the organization and profession. Therefore, except giving the assistance to reduce working stress, the management level should provide enough safe support, emotional support, fair support and respect support.
4. Working stress affects health-care workers¡¦ willing to stay on duty and take care of SARS patients. Therefore, to assist health-care workers in reducing fear and uncertainty of SARS, increasing the ability to adjust stress by training of SARS can reduce the intention of quit and job changing. The assistance can encourage the health-care workers to be more aggressive on taking care of SARS patients.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0825104-020239
Date25 August 2004
CreatorsHuang, Jui-mei
ContributorsKo, Jyh-Jer, Jennifer Shu-Chuan Yeh, Jin Feng Uen
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0825104-020239
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