Jutakan Boonnuchapirak.. The quality of work-life for nurse practitioners : a case study of intensive care units. Master's Degree(Human Development). Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center. : Mahidol University, 2016.
The quality of work-life for nurse practitioners : a case study of intensive care units
Abstract:
This research was conducted to study the quality of work-life for nurse practitioners; a case study of intensive care units by implementing the conceptual framework of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (THPF) which divided quality of working life into physical, psychological and emotional dimensions. Data were collected from individual questionnaires given to 252 nurse practitioners in the intensive care unit. The statistics employed in the study for quantitative data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics. The hypothesis was tested by employing t-test statistics, Correlation Analysis, one-way ANOVA and Regression analysis. Based on the findings, the personal factors of chronic diseases and job satisfaction among different nurse practitioners revealed nurses to have different overall and individual quality of working life was able to predict overall quality of working life scores with statistical significance at 0.001 . This study recommends future studies to study the factors with potential influence on quality of working life such as hospital policies, organization values, technological advances, etc. In addition, future studies should be conducted to study guidelines for promoting and improving quality of life for nurse practitioners in the intensive care unit in order for practitioners to have greater work efficiency.