NURSE PERFORMANCE AND ITS DETERMINANT FACTORS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS IN INDONESIA.
Contributors: University Of Hawaii.
Published: 1996
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Health Sciences, Public Health.; Health Sciences, Health Care Management.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Quality of care improvement is a major issue in hospital management. Community demands for better services, market competition, shifts of epidemiological patterns, and the utilization of high medical technology all bring the hospital into a transitional environment. At this critical stage, the hospital management has to redefine the hospital strategy, reorganize the structure and system, and improve the employee performance.

Nurses, have been identified as the major care givers in hospital. Their performance, therefore, determines the hospital quality of care. This study addresses several major factors influencing the nurse performance in public and private hospitals in Central Java, Indonesia.

The study was done in six hospitals: two "non-swadana" public hospitals, two "swadana" public hospitals, and two private hospitals. Attention was directed toward obtaining the major determinants of nurse performance. The three components of the nurse performance measurement in the study are: nurse discipline, nurse attitude, and nurse quality of care. A special inquiry was also done to determine the effects of the recently implemented policy "swadana," a strategy of decentralization and partial self financing for public hospitals.

The results of this study revealed that training, room facilities, types of hospital facility, and monthly incentive are the major predictors for nurse performance. This study also demonstrated the positive effect of implementing the "swadana" policy in public hospitals. The negative effect of monthly incentive in "swadana" hospitals as a disatisfier of motivation, is also discussed.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-08, Section: B, page: 5003.

Thesis (DR.P.H.)--UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, 1996.

School code: 0085.