Managerial Strategies for Long-Term Care Organization Professionals: COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

Ana Dias, Annibal Scavarda, Augusto Reis, Haydee Silveira and Nelson Francisco Favilla Ebecken
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Ana Dias: Production Engineering Department, Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca-CEFET/RJ, Rio de Janeiro 20271-110, Brazil
Annibal Scavarda: Production Engineering Department, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro-UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro 22290-240, Brazil
Augusto Reis: Production Engineering Department, Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca-CEFET/RJ, Rio de Janeiro 20271-110, Brazil
Haydee Silveira: Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-COPPE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro 21941-450, Brazil
Nelson Francisco Favilla Ebecken: Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-COPPE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro 21941-450, Brazil

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-19

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the strategies that healthcare professionals have adopted during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in long-term care organizations in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, by investigating their competencies—mainly managerial ones. To reach its goals, this paper performs empirical research and theoretical research. For the empirical research, the plans of professionals during COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care organizations are observed, and a questionnaire is applied to analyze observed data integrity. The data are analyzed through the Python and IBM SPSS Statistic programming languages, and descriptive analyses use descriptive statistic proportions, rates, minimum, maximum, mean, median, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation (CV). A non-parametric approach performs repeated measure comparisons using Wilcoxon’s test, while the McNemmar test is used to repeat the categorical variables. Statistical significance is assumed at the 5% level. For the theoretical research, a literature review is developed using scientific databases. The results show that for the searched period, the number of deaths and the number of people infected by COVID-19 in these organizations are low when compared to general statistics of Rio de Janeiro city. This paper concludes that these strategical adoptions have brought significant benefits to long-term care organizations, and it might motivate researchers to develop future studies related to long-term care organizations, helping to fill the literature gap on the subject.

Keywords: competency; COVID-19; long-term care; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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