The purpose of this research is to elucidate the factors for enhancing job satisfaction and reducing turnover among professional caregivers. For answering this question the author conducted a questionnaire survey (95 professional caregivers) and semi-structured interviews with 5 administrators and 6 professional caregivers working for long-term care health facilities and special nursing homes for the elderly. The analysis shows that the improvement of working conditions and environment (hygiene factors) is indispensable for enhancing their job satisfaction. It also suggests that it is important not only to care about hygiene factors but also to exert influence on motivation factors for reducing the rate of professional caregivers leaving their jobs. The expertise of professional caregivers has not been well recognized socially. It is important to establish their expertise and enhance their social status for improving their working conditions and job satisfaction, leading to the decline of the number of professional caregivers quitting their jobs. Professional caregivers have the expertise to assist the elderly in performing daily activities independently. In order to enhance social status of caregiving profession it is necessary to make the expertise of their work known to members of the general public. It is also necessary to come up with concrete measures for establishing expertise and raising social evaluation of caregiving profession.
雑誌名
熊本大学医学部保健学科紀要
巻
7
ページ
85 - 105
発行年
2011-03-23
ISSN
18807151
書誌レコードID
AA12010572
フォーマット
application/pdf
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2461375 bytes
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publisher
日本十進分類法
369.17
その他の言語のタイトル
A study on working environment and job satisfaction of proessional caregivers and their turnover
介護職員の職場環境と職務満足度および離職に関する考察
MH0007_085-105.pdf
(2.46MB)
