Working Environment, Assertive Behavior and Teamwork of Staff Nurses in General Hospitals in the Central Region
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2010-04-01
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Thailand Nursing and Midwifery Council
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The purpose of this research was to study the working environment, assertive behavior and team work of nurses in general hospitals in the central region. The sample consisted of 424 staff nurses selected by multi-state sampling .The research instruments used were a working environment questionnaire (Moose, 1986), an assertive behavior questionnaire (Clark, 1979), and a team work questionnaire (Woodcock, 1989). All questionnaires were tested for content validity by 5 experts and the reliability was tested using Cronbach’s Alpha which yielded result of .93, .89 and .96 respectively. The data was analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis . The results of this study showed that the mean scores for the working environment and assertive behavior were at high appropriate (X¯= 4.16, SD=0.36; 4.00, SD=0.37 respectively), and teamwork of staff nurses were at a high level (X¯ 4.02, SD=0.40). The working environment and assertive behavior were positively correlated to teamwork at a high level (r = 0.82, 0.74, p \< .001) Variables which could significantly predict teamwork were the working environment and assertive behavior. The predictors accounted for 70.1 percent of the variance of the teamwork of the nurses.
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Thai Journal of Nursing Council; Vol.23 No.1 January-March 2008; 87-99