Nursing Home Administrators' Opinions of the Nursing Home Compare Web Site

Nursing home administrators' level of job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction has been shown to have a direct relationship to the quality of work. Are nursing home administrators satisfied with their work? How do they compare with their counterparts in other industries? The results of this survey, using the Job Description Index (JDI) and the Job in General (JIG) scale as published by Bowling Green State University, indicate that nursing home administrat...

An instrument to measure job satisfaction of nursing home administrators

BACKGROUND The psychometric properties of the nursing home administrator job satisfaction questionnaire (NHA-JSQ) are presented, and the steps used to develop this instrument. METHODS The NHA-JSQ subscales were developed from pilot survey activities with 93 administrators, content analysis, and a research panel. The resulting survey was sent to 1,000 nursing home administrators. Factor analys...

Nursing Home

Home from home: residents' opinions of nursing homes and long-stay wards.

OBJECTIVE To compare the levels of satisfaction expressed by residents of nursing homes with those of patients in geriatric long-stay wards. DESIGN A structured satisfaction questionnaire containing 37 closed and two open questions was used to elicit responses from residents of nursing homes in the former South West Thames Regional Health Authority area. This was compared with a similar surve...

Nursing Home Residents