Relationships between the Empowerment of Head Nurses and Effectiveness of Nursing Quality Improvement on the Hospital and Health Care Standard

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research were to study 1) The level of empowerment of Head Nurses 2) the effectiveness of the Nursing Quality Improvement as the Hospital and Health Care Standard 3) to explore the relationship between empowerment of Head Nurses and the effectiveness of the Nursing Quality Improvement as the Hospital and Health Care Standard, Phrae Hospital. Stratified random sampling technique was used for selecting the sample that comprises 209 Professional nurses in Phrae Hospital. The research instrument-tool was divided into three parts of questionnaires: 1) demographic data 2) empowerment of Head Nurses 3) Nursing Quality Improvement on the Hospital and Health Care Standard. These were tested for Content validity andconbach's alpha coefficient of the second and third part were 0.96and 0.97 respectively. Data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and the Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The finding were as follows 1) Professional nurses empowerment of Head Nurses at the high level ( = 3.61,SD = 0.53) 2) The effectiveness of the Nursing Quality Improvement on the Hospital Health Care Standard was high level ( = 3.74,SD = 0.62) 3) There was with positive correlation statistically significant between empowerment of Head Nurses and the effectiveness of the Nursing Quality Improvement on the Hospital and Health Care Standard of Professional nurses in Phrae Hospital.