FACULTY AND STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR WITHIN ASSOCIATE DEGREE & BACCALAUREATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAMS (NURSING EDUCATION).
Contributors: University of San Francisco.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Health.
Description: Problem. Does the type of nurse education program, ADN & BSN, influence perceptions of nurse leadership behavior? Three research questions were asked: (1) Will ADN & BSN and nursing faculty perceive the leadership roles of their graduates differently?, (2) Will ADN & BSN nursing students perceive their leadership roles differently?, and (3) Will the faculty and students within the same nursing programs share the same perceptions of nursing leadership behaviors?.

Procedure. The sample included students (164 ADN & 143 BSN) and faculty (20 ADN & 21 BSN) from four ADN and three BSN nursing programs. Data were collected using the Dietz Leadership Behaviors Survey Instrument.

Results. All data indicated no differences in the perceptions of the students & faculty and type of nursing programs. The first two research questions were analyzed by two sets of independent t-tests with the independent variables of type of nursing program of the faculty and type of nursing program of the students, and the dependent variables were the five domain areas of the Dietz instrument (personal attributes, critical thinking/decision making, interpersonal relations, group relations and job relations). The third research question was analyzed by a multiple regression using the predictors of the demographic variables (age, gender, marital status, ethnic background, license (allied-health license), status (faculty/student), degree (previously-earned college degree), and time (time participant decided to enter nursing) and the five criterion variables of the content domain areas. The multiple r's ranged from .16 to .18 and r squares were all in the .03 range. None of the predictors strongly correlated with any of the criteria, or with each other.

Conclusions. (1) Similar means & standard deviations indicates all participants were homogeneous in perceptions of leadership behaviors. (2) Confusions exists by unclear tities and competencies of ADN & BSN graduates. (3) Nursing should educate faculty for a specific nursing program type.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-03, Section: B, page: 0993.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 1985.

School code: 6019.