ATTITUDE, SUBJECTIVE NORM, BEHAVIORAL INTENTION, AND PATIENT TEACHING AMONG NURSES.
Contributors: Temple University.
Published: 1996
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Education, Health.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Ajzen and Fishbein's Theory of Reasoned Action was utilized to study the factors that affect nurses' willingness to do student teaching. The sample consisted of 50 senior student nurses and 50 registered nurses from an acute care suburban medical center.

The independent variables were: (a) attitude, (b) subjective norm, and (c) behavioral intention. The dependent variable was the behavior of nurses' documentation of patient teaching. Demographic variables of age, level of education, and work experience were also studied.

The study used a cross-sectional design and a convenience sample of registered and student nurses. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire was established. Patient teaching data were collected by two raters. The interrater reliability obtained was.759 for registered nurses and.587 for student nurses.

Both registered nurses and student nurses had a highly positive attitude toward patient teaching. When measuring subjective norm, the scores indicated that both groups wanted to please the referent groups. The measure of behavioral intention indicated that the registered nurses were somewhat positive while student nurses demonstrated a high degree of intention.

However, the results of the statistical tests showed no relationship between the independent variables of attitude, subjective norm, and behavioral intention and the dependent variable of documentation of patient teaching. The demographic variables were not significantly related to documentation of patient teaching. When the nurses were asked to rank areas of interest, both groups ranked performing skills and procedures as their major area of interest.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-03, Section: A, page: 1039.

Thesis (ED.D.)--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1996.

School code: 0225.