Study of the process of nursing professionalization, using three core dimensions of professionalization: knowledge, power and ethics, shows that in Slovenia nursing is gradually developing into profession. Our results derive from cross-sectional survey which included twenty health care organizations in Slovenia. The presence of life long learning, professional autonomy and specific knowledge in nursing indicate rather clear and statistically significant positive impact on professionalization, while ethics in nursing is only marginal statistically significant. Identification of professional elements in some segments of the nursing population in Slovenia allows further educational and policy planning as well as research into implications for nursing practice and quality of health care in general.
F.26 Improvements to existing organisational structure and managerial solutions
COBISS.SI-ID: 4487531In the paper authors use multiple classification method for analysing influence of relational and structural factors on exchange of various support between adult children and their parents. The number of exchanged supports is a dependant variable, which is explained by demographic, relational and structural variables. Representative data on social networks in Slovenia are used.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 31553373The focus of the paper is on home ownership in post –socialist countries and i ts specificity in comparison to other EU countries. We start by discussion of major home ownership debates and argue how different was the stand point of discussions in post socialist countries; focusing on the macro level and economic efficiency they varied from western countries, where the home-ownership was recognised also as micro level and the family’s welfare issue. Further, also empirically we examined the role of the family in sustaining home ownership in post-socialist countries and aimed to estimate its strength in comparison to other groups of countries in EU. Using the available data of European Quality of Life Survey 2003 we analysed selected indicators of micro economic foundations of home ownerships, indicating how owned homes were integrated into economy and into welfare strategies of extended families. As a result, the significance of the family as a micro base of home ownership was estimated. The use of owned homes by extended family , manifested as three-generational households, rent-free accommodation and absence of mortgages – was found to be specifically high among post-socialist countries. While – not least surprisingly - it exceeds the Atlantic and Scandinavian group, where the phenomenon is hardly even detected, it by far exceeds also the South European group. Thus, it can be argued that in post socialist countries owned home - both as accommodation and a piece of equity - is one of the key welfare resources that are shared and exchanged within the family network and particularly between generations. To fully understand how home ownership and its high rates are achieved and sustained in post-socialist countries, it is necessary to recognise its micro foundations in a broader framework of welfare provision within family networks.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 30766685The chapter argues for the relevance of the social constructionist approach in studying homelessness. Three arenas/ actors are focused upon in this paper: the policy arena, the media and the public arena. It attempts to illustrate how studying representations of homeless and homelessness can provide a rich source of material and can (potentially) promote more critically informed research on this issue.
F.26 Improvements to existing organisational structure and managerial solutions
COBISS.SI-ID: 31407197The purpose of this study was to assess the potential for increasing the supply of non-profit rental housing in the municipality of Ljubljana and to offer some recommendations. Starting from examples of good practice in the EU, we wanted to give an overview of new possible ways of providing rental housing; the aim was also to assess how much the beneficiaries of non-profit housing and housing units would be willing and financially able to accept a set of such new solutions, taking into account the social sustainability of the tenancy. We provided an overview of non-profit housing supply in the EU area, taking into account various system frameworks that regulate and support the operation of non-profit housing. We presented a selection of examples of good practice and innovative solutions. We also analysed the situation in Slovenia and Ljubljana, according to the legal and system possibilities and limitations of non-profit housing supply. For insight into the current situation of potential beneficiaries to non-profit housing and their ability and interest in new solutions we prepared and conducted a survey, which included unsuccessful applicants of JSS MOL public tender for the non-profit housing, list A and list B and beneficiaries of residential units (users and those on the waiting list). Acceptance of the new solution was analysed using the method of vignettes. All tested solutions have proven to be relevant, but they require selective use. Also, all new organizational-status novelties were confirmed as useful as half of applicants is interested in them. However, none of the solutions showed as universal and generally acceptable to all. We recommend introducing all or as many as possible solutions tested and their selective use so that people can choose and available resources are used optimally. We also recommend different ways of cutting costs and the continuation of already existing good practices of MOL’s energy renovations. We recommend expending of non-profit housing providers. We recommend that JSS MOL supports non-profit housing projects with the possibility of participation of different stakeholders. We recommend starting a housing association as a demonstrative case.
F.24 Improvements to existing system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 31847005