Transformational Leadership Which Influences the Shortage Retention of Professional Nursing Organization of the Center Hospitals under the Supervision of Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry Of Public Health

Abstract

This research is the quantitative research with the objectives to investigate the Transformational leadership which influences the shortage retention of professional nursing organization of the center hospitals under the supervision of Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health. The research population consists of 504 professional nurses working in the center hospitals under the supervision of Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health in the network hospitals with the most shortage of nurses. The research tool is the questionnaire with the reliability of 0.966. The statistics used in the data analysis consist of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient is analyzed and the hypotheses are tested by using the structural equation analysis. According to the research results, it is found that most of the samples are females for 489 persons calculated as 97.00% in the age of 31-40 years calculated as 32.30% with the marital status of married calculated as 49.20%. The educational level of is the bachelor’s degree calculated as 89.50% with the experience in working in the center hospitals from 19 years or more calculated as 35.10%. Most of them work in pediatric wards calculated as 26.60%. Their income is mostly 20,000-30,000 baht per month calculated as 32.30%. Overall, the mean of the Transformational leadership factor which influences the shortage retention of professional nursing organization of the center hospitals under the supervision of Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health, is at the high level ( x = 3.94). The correspondence between the structural equation models following the hypotheses and the empirical data is considered from the value of Index of Item-Objective Congruence , df = 25, GFI = 0.991, AGFI = 0.984, CFI = 1.000, NFI = 0.992, and RMSEA = 0.000. All values pass the criteria and p-value equals to 0.716 which is more than 0.05 representing that accepting the hypothesis stating that the theoretical model is harmoniously correspondent with the empirical data. The test results reveal that the hypotheses of Transformational leadership LEAD has positive influence on the retention of professional nursing organization retention of professional nursing organization (RETEN). The path analysis value is 0.51 with the statistically significance at level 0.01.