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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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Quality of Working Life of Professional Nurses
Bencharat Somgiat, RN, MSN, Anesthesiology Department, Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand and Areewan Oumtanee, RN, PhD, Faculty of Nursing, Chulalongkorn University, Pratumwan, Thailand.
| Learning Objective #1: understand the concept of Quality of working life |
| Learning Objective #2: examine the predictors of Quality of working life of professional nurses |
The purposes of this research were to study the quality of working life and to examine the relationships between variables such as job characteristics, perceived organizational support, head nurses-staff nurses relationship and quality of working life of professional nurses. The samples consisted of 250 professional nurses working in Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand and were selected by stratified random sampling technique. Job characteristics, perceived organizational support, head nurses-staff nurses relationship and quality of working life were used as study quality of working life concept framework. These questionnaires were tested content validity and reliability with the Alpha of .82, .86, .95 and .92 respectively. Statistical methods used to analyze the data were mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The results of the study revealed that;
1. The overall quality of working life of professional nurses at Police General Hospital was at the moderate level
2. Variables predicting quality of working life of professional nurses at p = .05 were perceived organizational support and head nurses- staff nurses relationship. These predictors accounted for 49.7 percent of the variance (R2 = 49.7)
This findings indicated that the factors; perceived organizational
support and head nurses- staff nurses relationship have effect on the quality of working life of professional nurses so that the nursing administrators should support and create good relationship with their staff nurses in order that they will improve their work qualitatively and effectively.