EXPECTATION AND EVALUATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING SERVICES, AS PERCEIVED BY OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSES, EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Contributors: University Of Ulster (Northern Ireland)
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Health Sciences, Public Health.
Description: Available from UMI in association with The British Library.

With the intention of contributing to knowledge about occupational health nursing (OHNg) here this research was started with three questions: (A) What kind of occupational health nursing services (OHNg) do employers, employees and nurses expect? (B) How do the employers, employees and nurses evaluate the services provided? (C) Is there a difference between the expectations and evaluations of the OHNS among each group?.

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between expectations and evaluations of OHNS as perceived by employers, employees and OH nurses in the U.K. These are discussed within a new conceptual framework developed for occupational health nursing before and during the research period. This is named the homeodynamic self-care field (HSCF) conceptual framework. Respondents to the cross sectional survey by questionnaire comprised 254 nurses (all of whom were members of the Royal College of Nursing Occupational Health Nursing Society) 194 employees and 170 employers, throughout the U.K. Data collection was done from the 15th April to 14th September 1989. Data analysis by non-parametric statistics concentrated on analysis of data from the 144 company triads (where the nurse, employee and employer from the same company responded). Thirteen hypotheses were tested related to comparisons of correlations between expectations and evaluations of employees, employers, and OH nurses, and comparisons of expectations by groups and evaluations by groups. All null hypotheses were rejected. Data indicated that there was a strong, positive and significant correlation between expectations and evaluations for nurses, employees and employers for each group and as a total group. Nurses' (as providers) correlations of expectation to evaluation were significantly lower for nontraditional nursing services than for traditional nursing services, but for employees and employers (as receivers) there was no significant difference. Nursing services were perceived differently by respondents according to their job position and role. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-01, Section: B, page: 0225.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER (NORTHERN IRELAND), 1991.

School code: 5075.