DETERMINATION OF CONTENT OF A SURGICAL NURSE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
Contributors: University Of Tennessee.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: Descriptions of nurse internships have reflected a broad diversity of schemes in content, objectives and outcomes. The paucity of research about most aspects of the program supported the need to investigate the content. It was vitally important that the curriculum for the internship program be cogent to the developmental needs of the nurse interns.

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the essential content of a surgical nurse internship program. Five groups of nurses ranked and weighted 68 topics which were organized into five categories: professional, personal, patient/family, broad clinical and surgical nursing. Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance was utilized to determine the agreement within each of the five nurse groups, between the nurse groups and among all nurses. The chi square test was applied to determine the level of significance of the agreement. Rank and weight standing of each topic by each nurse group and of all nurses was obtained.

There was significantly high agreement among all nurses in ranking topics of all five categories. All nurse groups had highest agreement in ranking the professional and personal topics. There was a moderately high agreement in ranking broad clinical and surgical nursing and moderate agreement in ranking patient/family categories. Only one group of nurses, the associate degree faculty had a moderate agreement within their group in selecting appropriate topics. Other nurses had low agreement within their groups in ranking the 68 topics. Of all ten between groupings, the nursing service staff and the associate degree faculty had the highest agreement in ranking all 68 topics. The nursing service staff who had the highest correlation with all other groups are in a pivotal position to relate to faculties, students and new graduate nurses.

Topics receiving highest ranks and weights were effective documentation, problem solving, time management, effective communication, patient/family teaching, crisis intervention, emergency care--shock and hemorrhage, care of the critically ill patient, pre and post operative teaching/care pathophysiology of specific surgical conditions.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: B, page: 2836.

Thesis (ED.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, 1986.

School code: 0226.