DOI: 10.5176/2251-3833_GHC12.37
Authors: Yu-Hua Yan
Abstract: The hospital accreditation is part of the organizational learning system for the accreditation mechanism to be integrated in the hospital infrastructure and practices. Through the utilization of accreditation to encourage the organization to learn, the medical service quality enhancement is thus achieved. To investigate the connotation of nursing staff on the effectiveness of hospital accreditation and organizational learning to propose more comprehensive thoughts on the organizational learning policy of nursing staff for the government and hospital management and operation personnel. The present study was based on the structured questionnaire design. The preliminary draft of the questionnaire was subject to examination, pretesting, and reliability and validity analysis by experts and reviewed and approved by IRB prior to the finalization to the formal scale. The structured questionnaire includes the basic information and questionnaire scale, including the operation and management; medical care accreditation effectiveness and organizational learning ability. The study subjects were 473 nursing staff in the district hospitals in Taiwan. The medical accreditation effectiveness was found to play an important role in organizational learning in terms of hospital level, hospital ownership, education level, and occupational position. The hospital accreditation requires the processes such as focused accreditation study, execution evaluation, and application learning for the investigation of important issues of the organization. The accreditation outcome shall be integrated into the organizational goal to allow the hospital accreditation to become a steady learning process.
Keywords: hospital accreditation; organizational learning; operation and management effectiveness; medical care accreditation effectiveness
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