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The Differences in Quality Perceptions, Expectations, Evaluation, and Satisfaction for Nursing Service between Patients and Nurses: Small-medium Sized General Hospitals (중소 종합병원 입원환자와 간호사의 간호서비스에 대한 기대와 지각, 질 평가와 만족도 차이)

  • Kim Jeong-Hee;Lee In-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.34 no.7
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    • pp.1243-1254
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: This study was performed to give direction to quality improvement strategies of nursing services by comparing the differences in quality perceptions and satisfaction for nursing services between patients and nurses in small-medium sized general hospitals with 200 beds. Method: The subjects, who were 150 inpatients and 162 nurses of 4 general hospitals in a community, answered a self-report questionnaire with a SERVQUAL scale. Result: There were differences between patients' and nurses' expectations and perceptions of nursing service and satisfaction. In the service expectation, the highest factor was 'the responsiveness', and in the perceived performance, the highest was the 'assurance'. In addition, overall patients' perceptions on nursing services showed higher than nurses'. There were positive correlations among the expectations and perceptions on nursing service, and satisfaction. The correlation between perception and satisfaction was higher than the correlation between expectations and satisfaction. Conclusion: To improve the nursing service quality at small-medium hospitals, strengthening the 'assurance' factor and improving the nursing service support system is needed. Also, this study on nurses' perceived nursing service at small-medium sized hospitals should be duplicated.

Ensuring the Quality of Higher Education in Ukraine

  • Olha Oseredchuk;Mykola Mykhailichenko;Nataliia Rokosovyk;Olha Komar;Valentyna Bielikova;Oleh Plakhotnik;Oleksandr Kuchai
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.11
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    • pp.142-148
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    • 2023
  • The National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education plays a crucial role in education in Ukraine, as an independent entity creates and ensures quality standards of higher education, which allow to properly implement the educational policy of the state, develop the economy and society as a whole.The purpose of the article: to reveal the crucial role of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education to create quality management of higher education institutions, to show its mechanism as an independent entity that creates and ensures quality standards of higher education. and society as a whole. The mission of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education is to become a catalyst for positive changes in higher education and the formation of a culture of its quality. The strategic goals of the National Agency are implemented in three main areas: the quality of educational services, recognition of the quality of scientific results, ensuring the systemic impact of the National Agency. The National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education exercises various powers, which can be divided into: regulatory, analytical, accreditation, control, communication.The effectiveness of the work of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education for 2020 has been proved. The results of a survey conducted by 183 higher education institutions of Ukraine conducted by the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education are shown. Emphasis was placed on the development of "Recommendations of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education regarding the introduction of an internal quality assurance system." The international activity and international recognition of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education are shown.

What Quality Factors Affect to the e-Learning Performance (e-러닝 성과에 영향을 미치는 품질요인에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Gyun;Sung, Hang-Nam;Jeong, Dae-Yul
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.201-230
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    • 2007
  • Recently, the growth of e-Learning systems and its related information technology has presented a unique challenge for both schools and industry. It would make an extremely phenomenal paradigm shift in the educational method and practice. Methods of assessing the quality of e-teaming services and contents are critical issue in both practice and research. Moreover, many researchers are interested in what qualify factors more affect to the Performance of e-Learning service. Nevertheless, service quality is a construct that is difficult to define and measure. e-Learning services are composed of many factors, and they are more complicated than the traditional education services because they we performed on the distance basis and the many platforms of IT infrastructure. The purposes of our research are to classify the e-Learning service dimension and identify their factors, to develop the measurement of the factors, and finally to test empirically their relationship between the service factors and e-Learning service performance. For the development of the service factors we considered SERVQUAL model and SERVPERF model which were developed in the service marketing area. The SERVQUAL model was more fitted to the e-Learning services than the latter. From that we derived several factors that fit to our research domain, ie, tangibles, access, reliability, credibility, security, responsiveness, assurance, empathy. We combined three factors of them(reliability, credibility, security) into a factor, system stability for the semantic simplicity, and divided responsiveness factor into system operator responsiveness and teacher responsiveness as the entity based dimension classification. In the e-Learning services research, Most researcher are mentioned the quality factors of contents, so we added to two contents quality factors, ie, contents production method and richness of contents itself. We examined the relationship between the service quality factors and e-Learning performance(student satisfaction and service reuse intention). As result three quality factors(contents production method, teacher responsiveness, empathy) significantly affected student satisfaction. To the other performance variable, ie, service reuse intention, the teacher related quality factors(such as teacher responsiveness, assurance, empathy) affected only. In conclusion, even in the on-line distance teaming, the teacher's role md earnestness is as important as ever.

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Investigation of Factors Influencing Consumer Initial Trust and Intention to Use Mobile Banking Services (모바일 뱅킹 서비스에 대한 사용자 초기신뢰와 사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • Kim Gimun;Kim Won-Woo;Lee Ho Geun
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.13-34
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    • 2005
  • Mobile banking service has emerged as an important profit source for both banks and mobile phone service companies. However, the growth of the mobile banking service is behind the expectation of banks and mobile phone companies. One plausible explanation for this laggard diffusion of mobile banking may be the lack of consumers' initial trust on the service. Therefore, this study investigates the critical factors in building trust and intention to use mobile banking services. Our research results show that propensity-to-trust, structural assurance, and relative advantages of services have significant impacts on consumers' initial trust in mobile banking service Furthermore, initial trust in mobile banking service is a critical factor for adopting mobile banking services Contrary to our expectation, however, reputation of banks and mobile phone companies are not significant in attracting consumers to mobile banking services.

The Effect of Service Quality on E-Service Value, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Internet Banking (인터넷뱅킹의 서비스품질이 e-서비스가치 및 고객만족과 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Chung, Ki Han;Park, Min Young;Shin, Jae Ik
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.231-247
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    • 2009
  • With the growth of e-commerce banks make the best use of internet banking which can provide all sorts of financial services in cyber space and satisfy customers beyond traditional banking services which are cash reserve and loan based on retail. For survival of internet banking high quality of service should be provided to customers. For this, the attributes of service quality in internet banking should be identified first. The studies on scale of service quality in internet banking have been divided into two ways. While traditional way has focused on SERVQUAL, several researchers have developed scale of e-service quality. However, the dimension of e-service quality is applied from the traditional dimension of service quality. In this paper five dimensions of tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy based on SERVQUAL are used as scale of service quality in internet banking through reviewing previous studies. In addition, because service value is correlated to service quality, the dimensions of service quality can affect e-service value. The positive relationship among e-service value, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in online or offline service has been identified by previous studies. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship among service quality, e-service value, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in internet banking. SPSS 12.0 is used to test validity and reliability of questionnaire items and correlation of variables and AMOS 4.0 is used to test the hypotheses. The results of this study show that the responsiveness, assurance, and empathy factors of service quality have a positive effect on service value and that the tangible and assurance factors have a positive effect on customer satisfaction. It also shows that e-service value affects positively customer satisfaction and loyalty. Customer satisfaction affects positively customer loyalty. Therefore, to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty, service quality and value of internet banking should be improved through reinforcing customers' trust in internet service quality.

Convergence of IT and Online Security Trading : The Effects of MTS Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction & Customer Loyalty (IT와 온라인 증권거래의 융합 : MTS 서비스 품질이 고객만족도와 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Seong-Geun;Seok, Kee-Joon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.137-148
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    • 2015
  • The objectives of this study identify the factors that affect the quality of MTS services, to determine the effects of these service quality factors on customer's satisfaction and customer's loyalty. The results are as follows: First, The Four factors, i.e., tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, and assurance, represent statistically marginal significance in explaining the relationship between MTS service quality factors and customer's satisfaction. Second, The Five factors, i.e., rapidness, tangibles, responsiveness, empathy, and assurance represent statistically marginal significance in explaining the relationship between MTS service quality factors and customer's loyalty. Third, There are some differences in assurance/period of utilization, empathy/period of utilization in using MTS services according to social statistics. This article provides the paradigm of new convergence on IT and finance.

Explicating Moderating Effects of Conflict in the Psychological Mechanism in IT Service Engagement (IT 서비스 상황에서의 심리적 기제 : 갈등, 만족, 신뢰 그리고 몰입)

  • Park, Jun-Gi;Lee, Hyejung;Lee, Jungwoo
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-21
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    • 2014
  • In IT service quality research, the relationship between the service quality and clients' satisfaction was the focus of many studies while in relationship quality research, the influence of trust and conflict on relationship commitment seems to be the focus. In this study, these two research streams are integrated and a theoretical research model is proposed consisting of IT service quality, satisfaction, trust and relationship commitment with conflict as a moderator for the overall psychological mechanism. As satisfaction represents emotional response while trust cognitive response, this research model integrated both emotional and cognitive aspects of relationship maintenance in the IT service context. Analysis of data collected from 262 employees of global IT service firm revealed the differential effects of reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy on satisfaction and trust. Also, depending upon the level of conflict, the effects of reliability and assurance were found to be moderated. Further analysis revealed more profound mechanism at work relating emotional and cognitive aspects in the psychology of relationship maintenance in IT service context. Practical implications are further discussed in the conclusion.

Performance Analysis of the Data Delivery Schemes for Reliability Assurance in Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크의 신뢰성 확보를 위한 데이터 전송 방법의 성능 비교)

  • Kim, Seung-Cheon
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2008
  • As noted in the various USN service implementations including those in U-City, the reliable data transmission has become the essential component as the USN services are getting more various. The assurance of the reliability is needed sometimes prior to other QoS specifications of the USN services. The efficiency would become more important as well in USNs because the efficient and reliable delivery of a packet could be consequently linked to the energy saving. This paper is intended to provide the performance comparisons of data delivery schemes in USNs.

A Study on the Service Quality Evaluation of University Administrations - The utilization of DMAIC process 6sigma - (대학행정 서비스품질 평가 연구 - 6시그마 DMAIC 프로세스 이용 -)

  • Koo, Il-Seob;Cho, In-Hee;Jung, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.209-218
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    • 2008
  • The growth in services has focused issues of service quality both for commercial enterprises and across a range of public services and government institutions. The education sector, in particular, has undergone radical change to meet the needs of its varied constituents. This paper examines key issues in internal service, customer satisfaction, service quality, relational commitment as they apply in one particular education sector. The purpose of this study is to analyze effect of internal service on customer satisfaction, educational service quality. First, In the dimension of internal service, many factors affect internal customer's evaluation for overall satisfaction. They are categorized as five factors; tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy. The results of this study supported the proposed conceptual framework overall. Therefore, we identified that internal service quality is the antecedent of an internal customer satisfaction, and the consequent variables of an internal customer satisfaction are educational service quality, external customer satisfaction. The major findings of this study are summarized as follows. First, some factors(tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy) affected positively internal customer satisfaction. Second, external service quality affected positively educational service quality, external satisfaction. In other words, the more internal customers have experienced internal service, the higher internal service quality deliver educational service quality.

Perceptions of patient-centered care and patient-centeredness experiences of patients and nurses in comprehensive nursing care units at general hospitals (종합병원 간호간병통합서비스 병동 입원 환자와 간호사의 환자중심간호에 대한 인식과 환자중심성 경험)

  • Bae, Sung-Heui;Lee, Inyoung;Kim, Jeonghyun;Oh, Seugn Jin;Shin, Sujin
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.48-60
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    • 2019
  • Purposes: This study aimed to compare the perception between nurses and patients about comprehensive care services and to evaluate patient-centeredness experiences at comprehensive nursing care units. Methodology: We enrolled 267 nurses and 184 patients from comprehensive nursing care units of seven general hospitals. We performed data collection and analysis using structured questionnaires and SPSS/PC 23.0 program, respectively, with frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and ${\chi}^2$. test. Findings: We observed a significant difference in perception about comprehensive nursing care services between nurses and patients(p < .001). While the patient-centeredness experience score was the highest in the nursing service, it was the lowest in patient right assurance. Regarding patients' right assurance, "easy-to-express complaints" and "opportunity to participate in decision making" exhibited the lowest score. Practical Implication: This study suggests that it is imperative to assess the above-mentioned problems comprehensively to enhance patient centeredness at comprehensive nursing care units.