Leadership, staffing and quality of care in nursing homes

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Havig, Anders Kvale [1 ,2 ]
Skogstad, Anders [3 ]
Kjekshus, Lars Erik [4 ]
Romoren, Tor Inge [2 ]
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[1] Norwegian social Res NOVA, Oslo, Norway
[2] Gjovik Univ Coll, Ctr Care Res, Gjovik, Norway
[3] Univ Bergen, Fac Psychol, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
[4] Univ Oslo, Dept Hlth Econ & Hlth Management, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
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nursing homes; leadership; staffing; quality of care; MULTIDIMENSIONAL THEORETICAL-MODEL; RESIDENT OUTCOMES; JOB-SATISFACTION; INDICATORS; LIFE; METAANALYSIS; CHALLENGES; PERSONNEL; LESSONS; MIX;
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10.1186/1472-6963-11-327
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R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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Background: Leadership and staffing are recognised as important factors for quality of care. This study examines the effects of ward leaders' task-and relationship-oriented leadership styles, staffing levels, ratio of registered nurses and ratio of unlicensed staff on three independent measures of quality of care. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of forty nursing home wards throughout Norway was used to collect the data. Five sources of data were utilised: self-report questionnaires to 444 employees, interviews with and questionnaires to 13 nursing home directors and 40 ward managers, telephone interviews with 378 relatives and 900 hours of field observations. Separate multi-level analyses were conducted for quality of care assessed by relatives, staff and field observations respectively. Results: Task-oriented leadership style had a significant positive relationship with two of the three quality of care indexes. In contrast, relationship-oriented leadership style was not significantly related to any of the indexes. The lack of significant effect for relationship-oriented leadership style was due to a strong correlation between the two leadership styles (r = 0.78). Staffing levels and ratio of registered nurses were not significantly related to any of the quality of care indexes. The ratio of unlicensed staff, however, showed a significant negative relationship to quality as assessed by relatives and field observations, but not to quality as assessed by staff. Conclusions: Leaders in nursing homes should focus on active leadership and particularly task-oriented behaviour like structure, coordination, clarifying of staff roles and monitoring of operations to increase quality of care. Furthermore, nursing homes should minimize use of unlicensed staff and address factors related to high ratios of unlicensed staff, like low staff stability. The study indicates, however, that the relationship between staffing levels, ratio of registered nurses and quality of care is complex. Increasing staffing levels or the ratio of registered nurses alone is not likely sufficient for increasing quality of care.
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