ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

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A predictive, nonexperimental design was used to test Kanter's1work empowerment theory in a random sample of 412 staff nurses selected from the professional registry list of a central Canadian province. Kanter argues that work environments that provide access to information, support, resources, and opportunity to learn and develop are empowering and influence employee work attitudes, productivity, and organizational effectiveness. Test results suggest that fostering environments that enhance perceptions of empowerment will have positive effects on organizational members and increase organizational effectiveness.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

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The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and some states require nonprofit hospitals to demonstrate that they provide a substantial community benefit in order to get or maintain their tax-exempt status. This places every nonprofit hospital at risk. This article is about certain common factors that impact the management of all nonprofit hospitals and their ability to comply with such laws.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

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This article describes why rural residents migrate or travel outside their local market area for specialty physician care. Data were collected through a random mail survey of persons residing in Iowa's rural counties. The results imply that migration for specialty care is not simply a function of a low perceived availability of local specialty physicians. Managers of rural and urban health care systems may need to rethink the extent to which specialty physician services should be distributed across rural markets.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

External threats and volatility in the long-term-care sector in recent decades have posed serious challenges for nursing home administrators. Greater job complexity and administrative responsibilities resulting from public policies and more specialization and competitiveness in nursing home markets have made turnover a significant issue. This article examines administrator turnover from 1970 through 1997 in New York State and describes how turnover increased markedly in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

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This article compares the positive and negative stress response work attitudes of 126 home health care registered nurses (RNs) and 145 hospital RNs. Home health care nurses reported significantly lower levels of the negative work attitudes, anger/hostility, and frustration with the system. There was no significant difference between the two groups of RNs among the positive work attitudes of job satisfaction, positive affect, hope, meaningfulness, manageability, and trust in the supervisor and the negative work attitudes frustration with the supervisor, job alienation, and negative affect.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

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This article compares the service quality expectations of residents, family, and administrators within a long-term-care context. Expectations for service quality are measured using the SERVQUAL scale. The results support the reliability of the SERVQUAL instrument for nursing home residents. Resident expectations were significantly different from administrators' expectations on all dimensions of quality. The findings are interpreted in terms of expectation formation and the nature of service encounters.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

In the 1990s, acute care hospitals in the United States encountered an unstable operating environment created by a series of transformations in the health care delivery system and long-term-care market. Confronted with an array of economic pressures and demographic changes, hospitals were motivated to engage in long-term-care diversification, such as establishing a long-term-care unit or providing home health services, as a means of entering new markets and ensuring financial stability. This article examines the organizational, market, and community factors associated with this strategic activity among a national sample of urban and rural hospitals.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

数据来源: OVID