Table 1 Characteristics of home-visit nursing agencies from 2012 to 2014
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 4760 | N = 5160 | N = 5025 | ||||
Mean/n | SD/% | Mean/n | SD/% | Mean/n | SD/% | |
Number of FTE nurses | 4.8 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 2.6 | 5.0 | 2.7 |
Number of clients | 53.4 | 45.8 | 53.7 | 47.1 | 54.7 | 50.1 |
Number of clients per FTE nurse | 11.5 | 9.5 | 11.4 | 9.5 | 11.3 | 9.5 |
Agency ownership | ||||||
Healthcare corporation | 1694 | 35.6 | 1747 | 33.9 | 1640 | 32.6 |
Profit corporation | 1362 | 28.6 | 1643 | 31.8 | 1788 | 35.6 |
Social welfare corporation | 1533 | 32.2 | 1550 | 30.0 | 1386 | 27.6 |
Others | 171 | 3.6 | 220 | 4.3 | 211 | 4.2 |
With a scheduled program for training all employees (yes = 1) | 3935 | 82.7 | 4239 | 82.2 | 4042 | 80.4 |
With a scheduled program for training new employees (yes = 1) | 2949 | 62.0 | 3188 | 61.8 | 3083 | 61.4 |
Percentage change in the number of FTE nurses in the following year | 4.2 | 19.8 | 5.7 | 23.5 | 5.8 | 25.1 |