PERSONAL VALUES, WORK VALUES, AND JOB INTERESTS OF NURSING STUDENTS.
Contributors: Portland State University.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, General.
Description: The purposes of this study were to (1) describe personal values and work values of nursing students, (2) to investigate the relationships between values, and type of educational institution, educational preparation, job interests, and age. Using a Profile of Life Values (PLV) and Ohio Work Values Inventory (OWVI), values of 452 student nurses were examined, first as a total sample, then by the selected demographic variables with MANOVA, ANOVA, and Scheffe at the.10 level. In the sample were 43 graduate, 143 baccalaureate, and 266 associate degree nursing students from public and private educational institutions in two northwestern states.

Based on means for the total sample, PLV values of most importance were Considerate, Intellectual, and Achievement. Of moderate importance were Recognition, Creative, Artistic, and Integrity. OWVI values of most importance were Task Satisfaction, Self Realization, and Altruism. Of moderate importance were Security, Money, Independence, Ideas/Data Orientation; of lesser importance were Object Orientation, Control, Prestige, and Solitude.

In examining PLV and OWVI values by type of educational institution, the means for students in private institutions were significantly higher than the means for students in public institutions on eight scales: Creative, Recognition, Artistic, Achievement, Independence, Prestige, Independence, and Ideas/Data Orientation. When PLV and OWVI values were examined by educational preparation, graduate students placed more value on Intellectual; baccalaureate students placed more value on Recognition, Control, Object Orientation, and Independence; associate degree students placed more value on Integrity, Security, and Money. On examining values by job interests, students interested in pediatrics placed greater importance on Considerate; students interested in emergency and operating room specialties placed greater importance on Object Orientation. Using age group comparisons, students ages 40-54 placed more value on Intellectual; students ages 20-29 placed greater value on Recognition, Security, Control, Money, and Prestige. Graduate students primary interest was the nurse practitioner role; baccalaureate students expressed more interest in critical care and pediatrics; associate degree students expressed more interest in geriatrics and medical/surgical nursing. These findings have implications for nursing education, in curriculum development, teaching strategies, and values clarification by faculty and students.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-08, Section: A, page: 2700.

Thesis (ED.D.)--PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, 1992.

School code: 0180.