J Nurs Acad Soc.  1997 Jun;27(2):253-263.

The Second Study on the Effectiveness of Nursing Organization

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  • 1Department of Nursing, Medical College, Korea University, Korea. rich@healthis.org

Abstract

This second study on the effectiveness of nursing organization was designed to test the relationships between effectiveness of nursing organizations and structural variables that had been significant variables in the first study, the group design variable and the personal characteristic variables that had not been analysed in the first study based on personal resource productivity model. The data were collected through self-reported questionnaires completed by 605 nurses working in hospitals in seoul and 782 patients being hospitalized in 5 tertiary hospitals in Seoul. The results showed that according to the canonical correlation analysis, the managing job design, nursing delivery system. nurse's age career, and formalization were revealed as predicting variables of a nurses' job satisfaction and patients satisfaction among the five hospitals. Hospitals in which the team nursing method was used showed a higher score in nurses' job satisfaction and patient satisfaction than in hospitals which used the functional nursing model.

Keyword

Nursing Organization; Organizational Structure Components; Organizational Design; Organizational Effectiveness; Nursing Delivery System

MeSH Terms

Efficiency
Humans
Job Satisfaction
Models, Nursing
Nursing*
Nursing, Team
Patient Satisfaction
Surveys and Questionnaires
Seoul
Tertiary Care Centers
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