Human Resource (HR) Factors And Performance Of Nurses In Government Hospitals In Kenya

ABSTRACT

Nurses are the principal caregivers to patients in any hospital. They help identify patients’ actual or potential health care problems in order to deliver specific nursing interventions. This research was done to investigate, identify and create awareness on the HR factors that influence performance outcome of nurses in Government hospitals in Kenya. This study examined the influence of Work environment and tools, Remuneration and Workload stress on performance outcome of nurses. Studies show that HR factors are important in determining performance and in the theory of motivation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a significant relationship between these HR factors and performance outcome of nurses. The study design utilized for this research was descriptive survey and correlation design, using questionnaires, focus group interviews and observation to collect data. A sample population of 845 nurses was drawn from all six levels of government hospitals using Taro Yamanes sample size selection formula. Questionnaires were randomly delivered to 1,087 nurses in different government hospitals. 780 questionnaires were collected as duly filled and acceptable for analysis. This is a 71.7% return rate. Presentation of data was done in two levels: descriptive analysis and inferential statistics. Data gathered was cleaned, coded and analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Pearson’s Correlation analysis was done to determine if there is a significant relationship between the dependent and independent variables. Frequency distribution analysis provided an overview of the data using some statistical methods such as population mean and P-value.