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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.1.664

Nurses' Perception of Flexible Working and Its Operational Guideline  

Kim, Miyoung (Division of Nursing Science, College of Health Sciences, Ewha Womans University)
Kim, Eunjung (The Graduate School, Ewha Womans University)
Choi, Sujin (The Graduate School, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.1, 2016 , pp. 664-675 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to explore the nurses' perception of flexible working and present an operational guideline for implementation. The data were collected from a survey of 532 nurses conducted from 10 February to 24 February, 2015, using simple random sampling. SPSS 21.0 was used to analyze the data. This study found that the demanding for shorter hour shifts was highest ($M=3.89{\pm}0.87$) and 242 participants (46.2%) intended to apply the shift, followed by a fixed night shift, fixed weekend shift, and 12 hour shift. The common reasons identified were the poor environment of shift work and the challenges of child care. The increased time for personal development, relaxation activity to improve the quality of life and child care was highlighted and work-life balance was noted as a positive impact of flexible working. The negative impacts of flexible working were being likely to become temporary workers. These results can help establish uniform working conditions of nurses in the future by providing a standardized operational guideline as a precondition for reasonable compensation and working environment according to a flexible working pattern.
Keywords
Flexible working; Nurses; Working condition; Workload;
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