A study of patients' expectation and head nurses' perception of patients' expectation on nursing service quality, government hospitals, Bangkok Metropolis
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study, to compare and to rank patients' expectation and head nurses' perception of patients' expectation on nursing service quality, government hospitals, Bangkok Metropolis. The research subjects, consisted of 321 in patients and 137 head nurses were randomly selected through multi stage sampling technique. The instrument was adapted from SERVQUAL which has been tested for content validity and reliability. The data were analyzed by using arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t-test. The major findings were as follows : 1. Patients' expectation and head nurses' perception of patients' expectation on nursing service quality are more level. 2. Patients' expectation and head nurses' perception of patients' expectation on nursing service quality are statistically significant difference at the level of 0.05. Head nurses perceived patients' expectation more than that of patients on access, communication, courtesy, credibility, security and understanding/knowing customer, while patients perceived more than that of head nurses' perception on tangibles. 3. The ranking score of reliability, access and understanding/knowing customer, given by the patients' are similar to those of the head nurses. The ranking score of tangibles, competence, security, credibility, responsiveness, communication and courtesy, given by the head nurses are not similar to those of the patients.