ATTITUDES TOWARD GENERAL CARE MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING BY ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES IN A CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT.
Contributors: Brigham Young University.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Community College.; Health Sciences, Education.
Description: As a result of rapid and profound changes in the hospital as workplace, the work of the nurse has become much more intense and stressful. The largest group of nurses, general medical-surgical nurses, seem to be particularly affected.

This descriptive study proposed to identify and measure attitudes to the work of the general care nurse. The participants were associate degree nursing students and associate degree nurses within two years of degree completion. An instrument to measure these attitudes was developed, piloted, and administered to 623 students and graduates.

The ability to be effective in practice, the satisfactions inherent in that practice, and the complexity of the work emerged as crucial themes. Differences were demonstrated between the student and graduate groups as well as within each group with regard to these ideas. Of particular interest were the data emanating from the third semester students, male students and graduates, and the second year graduates.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05, Section: B, page: 2440.

Thesis (ED.D.)--BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1993.

School code: 0022.