Relationships between safety management, team works, job autonomy and service quality of intensive care unit as perceived by professional nurses in intensive care units, private hospitals, Bangkok Metropolis
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the relationships between safety management, team work, job autonomy, and service quality of intensive care unit as perceived by professional nurses in intensive care unit, private hospitals, Bangkok metropolis. The samples consisted of 433 professional nurses work in intensive care units. The research instruments were safety management, team work, job autonomy and service quality of intensive care unit questionnaires which were developed by researcher, judger by the panel of experts and Cronbachs alpha coefficients of reliability were .93 .92 .84 and .77 respectively. Statistical techniques used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient.
The major findings were as follows:
1.Mean scores of service quality of intensive care unit was at a high level. (mean = 3.91, SD = .38)
2.Mean scores of safety management and team work were at a high level. (mean = 3.97, SD = .49, mean = 3.86, SD = .51) Job autonomy was at a median level. ( mean = 3.49, SD = .47)
3.Safety management, team work and job autonomy were highly and positively correlated with service quality of intensive care unit. (r = .84 .79 and .77, respectively; p < .01)