STUDY OF LEARNING RESOURCES UTILIZED BY RURAL AND URBAN REGISTERED NURSES (RURAL HEALTH CARE, URBAN HEALTH CARE, NURSING EDUCATION).
Contributors: University of Oklahoma.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the availability, use, and level of satisfaction with the overall quantity and quality of learning resources for continuing professional nursing education for registered nurses in rural settings compared with registered nurses in urban settings. The study sample consisted of 102 rural and 106 urban registered nurses. Analysis of the responses from the Use of Learning Resources questionnaire and interviews with rural and urban staff nurses and directors of nursing were used to gather data. Using the Chi-square test, rural nurses had significantly less availability to nurse educators, research studies, social workers, chaplains, psychologists, patient advocates, ethicists, and employment counselors when compared with urban nurses. Other significant findings were that rural nurses tended to use the learning resources of textbooks, audiovisual materials, head nurses or supervisors, and physicians more than did their urban counterparts.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-11, Section: A, page: 3964.

Thesis (ED.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 1993.

School code: 0169.