The Study on The Organization Change of Nursing Vocational High Schools: An Example of a Local Private Nursing Vocational High School

• Main Authors: Liu Yu Yuan, 劉裕元
• Other Authors: 黃煥榮
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21379948651288796340

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 公共管理與社區發展研究所碩士在職專班 === 91 === The Title of thesis: The study on the organization change of Nursing Vocational High schools: with an example of a local private nursing vocational high school. With the arrival of 21st century, all levels of governments and businesses worldwide have been dedicating into the search for more effective methods to be competitive in the global village. The Nursing education reform has directly impacted on a nation’s overall human resource quality and its competitiveness. However, due to some major changes in the social environment, business climates, education policies, the Nursing vocational high schools do not have those traditional advantages and now face new challenges; therefore, it is necessary to conduct organization changes and transformation. The subject of this study is to analyze the organization changes within the Nursing vocational high schools, and take one local private nursing high school’s actual experiences as an example. The main four focuses include: 1) analyze the interaction between Nursing vocational high schools career services and the real job market. 2) study the history, strategies and management details through the transformation of Nursing vocational high schools, 3) try to establish the model and direction for nursing vocational high schools’ transformation, 4) forecast the synergy after the transformation and its future. For the main study methodologies, those include case study method, literature review, participant observation and personal depth interview. Since the author personally works in a nursing vocational high school, the advantage is to obtain first-hand, trust-worthy data in terms of those organization change and transformation details and procedures. On the other hand, in order to have more in-depth information of all levels of nursing industry, the author had interviewed 24 related personnel, including school’s executives, teachers, staff, students, alumni, and students’ family. During the process of the whole organization change, it was found out that the nursing vocational high schools did not enjoy the competitive advantage anymore. The graduates strived to move on to advanced nursing degree; for those who started working right after graduation tended to be disappointed and frustrated. How to solve this obstacle? The answer is to conduct the organization change, transformation and upgrade as soon as possible. Overall speaking, the nursing vocation high schools have to conduct the organization change, transformation and upgrade, in order to stay competitive in the current society. However, many obstacles and difficulties may arise along the way, as well as schools executives need to take very detailed and well-planned strategies. Meanwhile, some suggestions were made during the study, in order to have continuous improvement for nursing vocational high schools management, organization change and upgrade strategy and future development.