NURSING DIAGNOSES: PERCEPTIONS OF DEANS.
Contributors: Illinois State University.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Education, Administration.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The problem of this study was to determine the congruence of perception among selected deans of nursing in associate degree and baccalaureate degree nursing programs in the North East Central and the Middle Atlantic States of the United States in reference to nursing diagnoses. The "Nursing Diagnoses Questionnaire" was utilized for this study. Of the 344 questionnaires distributed, 288 were returned with 263 used for analysis.

Independent variables were type of educational program, number of nursing students graduated annually, number of years that the nursing program has been in existence, highest degree earned or doctoral candidacy status of the dean, number of years since the highest degree was completed by the dean, region of the country, and type of institutional control. The dependent variable was the responses of the deans to the "Nursing Diagnoses Questionnaire." The statistical procedures used were reliability analyses (Cronbach's reliability coefficient), means, frequencies, percentages, crossstabs, chi square, and analysis of variance.

On the basis of the statistical treatment of the data, the following conclusions appear justified: (1) The congruence of the deans' affirmative perceptions about nursing diagnoses may be interpreted as general approval of the concepts and movement of nursing diagnoses in the United States. (2) The type of educational program administered by the dean has a relationship to perceptions held of nursing diagnoses. (3) The number of years that the nursing program has been in existence was not a predictor for shaping of attitudes of respondent deans toward nursing diagnoses. (4) The mid-range sized schools of nursing were more positively predisposed to advocacy for use of nursing diagnoses in curricula, in agencies, and for an infrastructure at the national level for the system of nursing diagnoses than were other sized programs. (5) Respondent deans who earned their highest degrees within the past five years were more favorable in attitude to nursing diagnoses than deans who had the degrees a longer period of time. (6) The Middle Atlantic States were more affirmative than the North East Central States in association of benefits to the nursing profession when nursing diagnoses is added to state nurse practice acts and for advocacy that associate degree programs use nursing diagnoses.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-09, Section: A, page: 2201.

Thesis (ED.D.)--ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, 1987.

School code: 0092.