{"title":"Hospitals: The Market for Health Care Facilities","authors":"John D. Benjamin, Peter T. Chinloy, I. Megbolugbe","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-6229.2007.00184.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6229.2007.00184.x","url":null,"abstract":"Health care facilities include hospitals and nursing homes. Demand for beds and occupancy depends on income, prices and insurer restrictions. The supply of beds is limited by regulatory certificates of need. The implied equilibrium vacancy leads to a trade-off with rate increases. Rate increases establish an asset price for a hospital bed. If prices of health care rise faster than income and nonhealth prices, patients demand less bed availability and occupancy. Rising vacancy and rising prices occur, consistent with the empirical observations for U.S. health care facilities. For 1980-2001, the equilibrium vacancy rate for U.S. hospitals is between 27% and 36% depending on capacity adjustments, bed availability and price expectations. Equilibrium vacancy is near the actual rate after 2000, but that rate is 11 percentage points higher than in the early 1980s when the number of beds was nearly one-third higher. Usually rent regulation leads to excess demand. But in a general equilibrium model with income, relative prices, expectations, supply and capital markets, price regulation can coexist with excess supply. Copyright 2007 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association","PeriodicalId":168708,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Hospital Nursing Administration (Sub-Topic)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116730337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nurses' Retention and Hospital Characteristics in New South Wales","authors":"Denise Doiron, Glenn Jones","doi":"10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00290.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00290.x","url":null,"abstract":"Nursing shortages are commonly observed features of hospital systems in Australia, Europe and the United States. To date there has been very little research on the effects of hospital characteristics on the retention of the nursing staff. In this paper we match individual data on registered nurses (RNs) working in the public sector in NSW in 1996 to the hospital in which they work. We analyze the annual retention probability for these RNs using the nurses? personal characteristics as well as the characteristics of the hospitals. It is found that the type of hospital per se does not help explain the retention probability of the nurses employed in the premise but the hospital characteristics do. Hospital characteristics include measures of size, complexity, intensity, expenditures and staffing levels. The results suggest that the effects of these variables are complex. For example, complexity of the work as measured by admissions from emergency increase retention while high cost procedures and large ANDRG weights reduce retention. Higher levels of expenditures (at constant staffing levels) increase retention except for expenditures on visiting medical officers which reduce retention. The effects on the expected retention probability are very large and significant. One implication of our findings is that simply increasing staffing levels is unlikely to achieve much impact on nurses? retention levels unless problem areas of the job are also addressed.","PeriodicalId":168708,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Hospital Nursing Administration (Sub-Topic)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121209496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Correlation Between the Power Styles Used by Nurse Managers and Bullying Behaviour","authors":"Şehrinaz Polat, Betül Sönmez","doi":"10.33844/IJOL.2018.60327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33844/IJOL.2018.60327","url":null,"abstract":"This cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational study was conducted to determine the correlation between the perceptions of nurses about the power styles used by their managers and the bullying behaviours that are exposed to them by their managers.The sample of the study consisted of 822 nurses who worked in a public university hospital in Istanbul and agreed to participate in the study. The nurses who participated in this study evaluated the power styles used by their managers as legitimate power, reinforcing power, and coercive power, respectively. Almost half of the nurses in this study indicated that they were exposed to bullying behaviour by their managers in the last one year. It was found that current reinforcing powers of managers had an inverse effect on being exposed to bullying behaviours, whereas their legitimate and coercive powers (for head nurses) had a significant effect on being exposed to bullying behaviour. The legitimate and coercive power styles were effective in bullying behaviour and supported the presence of power inequality between the person displaying negative behaviours and the victim or abuse of power. This study revealed that nurse managers should prudently use the legitimate and coercive powers which arise from their position at a level that will not cause bullying.","PeriodicalId":168708,"journal":{"name":"NursingRN: Hospital Nursing Administration (Sub-Topic)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126684853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}