NURSES' APPLICATION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS.
Contributors: University of Kentucky.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purposes of this research study are to determine who attends continuing nursing education offerings, why they attend, and which variables predict who will implement the knowledge and skills learned in continuing nursing education workshops in the workplace. It was assumed that both internal factors such as motivation and external factors such as agency financial support would influence the degree to which nurses would implement workshop content learned in the workplace.

Demographic, institutional, and psychosocial data were collected from 116 nurses to determine which factors best predict who will implement knowledge. Data analyses indicated that the four variables most strongly associated with implementation of workshop content were participant's belief that content could be implemented, locus-of-control (Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal/External Scale and the Danner-Harris Externality Scale), funding (whether participants paid for workshop or employer paid), and evaluation (whether or not participants would be evaluated by their employer after workshop). All of the statistical procedures indicated that a belief in the possibility of implementation was the strongest predictor of actual implementation. According to the multiple regression analysis locus-of-control was a significant predictor of reported implementation but in the opposite direction of the prediction. It was predicted that those participants with an internal locus-of-control would implement more workshop content. However, more implementation was reported by those with an external locus-of-control. The all group discriminant analysis revealed that evaluation of the participants by their employers was one of the three significant predictors of implementation. Multiple regression and discriminant analysis all-group and stepwise procedures indicated those participants whose employer paid for their workshop attendance implemented more of the workshop content. The implications for improving the implementation of content learned in continuing nursing education workshop in the workplace are discussed.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, Section: A, page: 1572.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, 1986.

School code: 0102.