COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION OF HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS' AND NURSING MANAGERS' PERCEPTIONS CONCERNING NURSING SHORTAGES WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM.
Contributors: Texas Southern University.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Health Care Management.; Education, Health.
Description: This study analyzed the perceptions of the hospital administrators and nursing managers concerning nursing shortages within the health care delivery system. The investigation addressed three major problems: (1) Was there a significant difference between nursing managers' and hospital administrators' perceptions of job factors that decreased nursing shortage? (2) To what extent, if any, did nursing managers and hospital administrators differ on the issues causing nursing shortage? (3) What effect if any, did selected demographic variables: sex, age, years of service and educational level have on nursing management responses?.

Data utilized in this study were derived from a Likert-type instrument and a demographic data sheet. The two instruments and a demographic data sheet were mailed to 200 nurse managers and hospital administrators randomly selected from a population of 600 nurse managers and hospital administrators from Harris, Galveston, Lubbock, Houston, El Paso, Travis and Dallas counties. 161 participants returned completed questionnaires but 160 questionnaires (80%) were used for the final analysis of the data. The One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) technique and the Scheffe test were used to analyze the data, with a level of significance established at.05 (p $<$.05) or better.

The study's findings support the following conclusion: That the nurse managers and hospital administrators did not differ on the issues of the job factors that would decrease the shortage of nurses as stated in the nursing shortage perception questionnaire.

That the nurse managers and hospital administrators differed significantly on the issues that caused nursing shortage. The nurse managers had higher perceptions of the issues that caused nursing shortage.

Educational level of the nurse managers and hospital administrators had no significant impact on their responses toward the issues that caused nursing shortage. The nurse managers and hospital administrators did not differ significantly in their perceptions that the proposed American Medical Association's nurse technologist program will not be the answer to nursing shortage in the hospitals. Age and years of service were not relevant to the factors when considering the responses of nurse managers and hospital administrators.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-08, Section: B, page: 3780.

Thesis (ED.D.)--TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, 1990.

School code: 0441.