Relationships between leadership of head nurses, working environment, service quality of patient units as perceived by professional nurses, community hospitals
Abstract:
The descriptive research was designed to study the relationships between leadership of head nurses, working environment, service quality of patient units as perceived by professional nurses, community hospitals. The sample were 441 professional nurses who were located in patient units, community hospitals. Subject were selected using a multi stage sampling technique. Research instruments were leadership of head nurses questionnaire, working environment questionnaire and service quality of patient units questionnaire, as perceived by professional nurses, community hospitals. All questionnaires were tested for validity and reliability. Cronbachs alpha reliability coefficients for the three instruments were .97, .93, and .92 respectively. The data were analyzed by frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearsons product moment correlation coefficients. Major findings were as follows: 1. Mean of leadership of head nurses, working environment, and service quality of patient units as perceived by professional nurses, community hospitals were at high level (X̅ = 3.84, SD = .58, X̅ = 3.54, SD = .55 and X̅ = 3.88, SD =.41) 2.There were significant positive relationships between leadership of head nurses , working environment, and service quality of patient units as perceived by professional nurses, community hospital at .05 level (r = 0.56, 0.66 , p < .05)