PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR NEW BACCALAUREATE GRADUATE NURSES: A SURVEY OF CLINICAL NURSE EDUCATORS AND EXPERIENCED BACCALAUREATE NURSES.
Contributors: Indiana University.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.
Description: This study compares opinions of experienced baccalaureate nurses and clinical nurse educators about ideal performance expectations and real performances of new baccalaureate nursing graduates. Three major questions guided this study: (1) What are differences between the ideal performance expectations and real performance appraisals for new baccalaureate nursing graduates as perceived by baccalaureate clinical nurse educators and experienced baccalaureate nurses? (2) What is the difference in the perceptions of experienced baccalaureate nurses about the ideal performance expectations and real performance appraisals of new baccalaureate nursing graduates? (3) What is the difference in the perceptions of baccalaureate clinical nursing educators about the ideal performance expectations and real performance appraisals of new baccalaureate nursing graduates?.

Purposive samples of experienced baccalaureate nurses and clinical nurse educators were selected from eleven hospitals and four nursing schools in a large mid-western metropolitan area. The Benner Proficiency Scale was used to measure opinions of the respondents about ideal performance expectations and real performance appraisals of new baccalaureate nursing graduates.

Statistically significant differences were found between experienced baccalaureate nurses' and baccalaureate nurse educators' rating for both ideal expectations and real performance appraisals of new baccalaureate graduates. Clinical nurse educators tended to have higher ideal performance expectations and higher real performance appraisals for new nursing graduates than did the experienced nurses. In addition, the ideal performance expectations of both groups of respondents tended to be higher than their real performance appraisals of new baccalaureate nursing graduates.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: B, page: 2570.

Thesis (ED.D.)--INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 1988.

School code: 0093.