The participants for this study are Thai nurses who work in both
government and private hospitals in Thailand. They were selected using
multiple-case sampling suggested by Miles & Huberman (1994). The
sampling frame was implemented by type of organization (government and
private hospital) and operation units as the case sampling dimensions.
However all the hospitals were structured slightly differently, and they did
not all have the same operational units. To overcome this problem, the
decision was made to select interviewees from as wide a range of units as
possible and to try to ensure fairy even coverage of private and government
hospitals. This resulted in thirty cases (28 females, 2 males). Eighteen
participants were employed in government hospitals and 12 in private
hospitals. Sixteen participants were aged under 30 years, 9 were 31-40 years,
4 were aged 41-50 years, and one was over 50 years. In order to present the
quotations specified by each participants, we named the participants from
government hospital with “A” and the participants from private hospital with
“B”, follows with numbers as their identification.