dc.description.abstract | This research investigates new immigrant nursing assistants, and studies their familial, social, and individual retention considerations in their long-term caring works, hoping to find their retention factors and retention barriers. By conducting this research, the government and the related departments can serve it as the reference for proposing and imposing care service measures.
This study adopts a qualitative survey and uses the semi-structured interview in the in-depth interview method. The nationality of the interviewees in this research are set as Chinese female new immigrants, and they are mainly dwelling in Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County. According to the Snowball method, the author invites four Chinese new immigrant nursing assistants as research subjects, two of whom serve in Hsinchu City and the others serve in Hsinchu County. Specifically, two of whom serve as home care assistants, one serves as an agency assistant, and one of them served as a home care assistant and an agency assistant before. The author collected the data through the interview processes and the results are as follows. This study found that the factors for the new immigrant nursing assistants to keep engaging in long-term caring works are mainly due to their economic needs, the convenience of taking care of their families, seeking supports from their families. From the social aspects, the social welfare policies, working resources, and social network connection factors are the critical factors that attract them. Besides, from the individual aspects, the motivation of volunteerism and the satisfaction of individual relevance needs are their considerations. However, when it comes to the obstacles for the new immigrants to keep engaging in long-term caring works, the inability to take care of the family from familial perspectives, the inaccessibility of welfare resources from social perspectives, heavy working loads, and the pressure of interpersonal relationship from individual perspectives are the difficulties they have to confront.
Based on the above research findings, the author hopes to increase the new immigrant assistants’ retention factors and to remove obstacles that hinder them from retaining. To sum up, increasing the retention rate of new immigrant nursing assistants and making them become stable human resources in the long-term care system are the tasks that the government and the related departments should take into account. | en_US |