DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36821
title: Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 3 Survey, 2016
title: Archival Version

description: The Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 3 Survey, 2016 is the third wave of a multi-wave panel survey that studied newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between August 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015. It was conducted as part of the RN Work Project, a national study of new nurses funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The survey interviewed the nurses about their jobs, turnover, education, intentions and attitudes--including intent, satisfaction, organizational commitment, and preferences about work.
description: The Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 3 Survey, 2016 and the full series sought to accomplish three main objectives: Describe newly licensed registered nurses' changes in work patterns and factors associated with those changes over an extended time period by following the panel from our current Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded study for an additional six years. Compare educational background, work setting, and work satisfaction among three different cohorts of NLRN. Describe the training about patient safety of NLRNs employed in hospitals. The primary advantage of cohort data is to find out how groups graduating in different years are more or less similar. That information provides with an indication of changes in the environment or in those people who choose nursing as a career. Collecting data on two additional cohorts will help us separate the threats to internal validity of history versus maturational effects.
description: Panel data was used for this study and all others in the series because it made it possible to determine the similarities and differencies in groups graduating in different years. That information provides an indication of changes in the environment or in those people who choose nursing as a career. Collecting data on two additional cohorts helped the researchers separate the threats to internal validity of history versus maturational effects. Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI) determined the distribution of nurses by site needed in order to achieve a minimum of 1,500 completed surveys. Each nurse was assigned a random number. This list was then organized by each of the 27 sites and sorted according to random numbers. The first N (number of respondents needed) were selected from each site.
description: The sample was weighted prior to collecting data so that analyses could be done without weighting final data set. We did not weight final sample by response rates from specific geographic areas.
description: Response Rates: 36%
description: Presence of Common Scales: Large variety of scales from literature and questions identical to HRSA National Sample Survey - RNs 2005.
description: The sample design for the New Cohort study sampled new RNs residing in 20 MSAs and 1 rural county in 14 states across the country. Ten out of the 14 states were able to provide 'perfect lists' of nurses who gained their license by exam within the dates of interest. For further information, please refer to the User Guide.
description: Datasets: DS1: Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 3 Survey, 2016
description: Newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between August 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015. Smallest Geographic Unit: Region
description: mail questionnaireAdditional information about the survey is available on the RN Work Project website.