ATTITUDE TOWARD NURSE UNIONIZATION IN KENTUCKY HOSPITALS AS PERCEIVED BY SELECTED ADMINISTRATORS.
Contributors: Indiana University.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the attitude of head nurses and directors of nursing in hospitals toward nurse unionization and the American Nurses' Association's role in collective bargaining. Tools were devised and validated for the measurement of demographics, job satisfaction and attitude toward nurse unionization.

The study groups were as follows: Group I included all study participants, Group II was comprised of 125 head nurses and 40 directors of nursing attending mandatory continuing education, and Group III included 14 head nurses and one director from a single hospital. Descriptive demographic data and correlations among all tools and groups were analyzed.

Groups II and III were similar in age, but Group III was better educated. More than forty percent of the workshop population worked in hospitals of 101-350 beds. The single hospital had 300 beds. Most participants were former members of the American Nurses' Association, whereas the majority planned not to join now or in the future. Job satisfaction in all groups decreased with increasing hospital size. Years in nursing for all groups correlated positively with job satisfaction and negatively with attitude toward union and collective bargaining by the professional association. Job satisfaction correlated negatively with all measures of nurse unionization and with membership in the Professional Association, if the Association continues its role in collective bargaining at the 0.01 level for both groups II and III.

Because statistical findings were at the 0.01 level for most items correlated, it would seem that further study on staff nurses and managers should be done in all types of settings.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-09, Section: B, page: 2872.

Thesis (ED.D.)--INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 1984.

School code: 0093.