Job Satisfaction and Professional Commitment Among Nurse Aides

• Main Authors: LEE, LI-MEI, 李麗美
• Other Authors: HSIAO, YU-LING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d5p6vu

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 跨專業長期照護碩士學位學程在職專班 === 107 === Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the job satisfaction and professional commitment of nurse aides. Furthermore, this study also explored the influence of demographic characteristics, job characteristics and organization characteristics on job satisfaction and professional commitment. Research Design: This was a cross-sectional questionnaire study. The study took nurse aides of registered long term care facilities in Yilan County as population, with stratified sampling according to the types of the facilities and genders. 256 participants were enrolled from October to November in 2018. Result: The job satisfaction of the nurse aides was moderate level. The factors that affected the job satisfaction included ages, education levels, facility types, hire relations, and salary. The professional commitment of nurse aides was upper middle range. The factors that affected the professional commitment included facility types, hire relations, and salary. The job satisfaction and professional commitment of the nurse aides were highly to middle positive related. Recommendations: In the future, we can conduct research to compare the nurse aides of Taiwan and each area, different service types or dispatched nurse aides. In practice, arrange appropriate on-the-job training for the nurse aides, enhance their autonomy, and treat the nurse aides with respect. Encourage the nurse aides to establish the occupational group to protect their right and interest, and improve low job satisfaction and low professional commitment from dispatched workers. Additionally, it is necessary to increase the proportion of licensed nurse aides, and plan a career ladder system in order to attract young work force to enable long term care for sustainable development.