NURSES' ATTITUDES ABOUT NURSING WORK (JOB SATISFACTION).
Contributors: University Of Illinois At Chicago, Health Sciences Center.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations.
Description: Nurses employed on medical surgical nursing units at nine randomly selected hospitals completed a 59 item questionnaire assessing their attitudes about nursing work. The questionnaire measured the nurses' satisfaction with 44 specific patient care tasks, overall satisfaction with nursing work, and frequency of role strain experiences. Demographic characteristics also were measured.

Factor analysis was used to reduce the 44 tasks into four task categories including basic care, technical, interpersonal, and leadership. Nurses' satisfaction with work decreased with experiences of role strain. Overall satisfaction significantly decreased with increased frequency of role ambiguity, role overload and role simplicity experiences. Satisfaction with basic care tasks, technical tasks, and interpersonal tasks also decreased with increased frequency of role simplicity experiences. Satisfaction from leadership tasks decreased with role conflict with physicians and role difficulty experiences.

Older nurses were significantly more satisfied with basic care tasks, interpersonal tasks, and leadership tasks than were younger nurses. Night nurses were significantly more satisfied with basic care tasks than were nurses assigned to the day shift.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: B, page: 6671.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, 1995.

School code: 0806.