STAFF NURSE JOB SATISFACTION AS RELATED TO PERCEIVED HEAD NURSE LEADER BEHAVIOR IN SELECTED VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITALS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
Contributors: North Carolina State University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: The major purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between staff nurses' job satisfaction and perceived head nurse leader behavior (consideration-structure). Secondary purposes were to (1) determine the relationship between selected demographic, situational, and organizational variables, and level of staff nurse job satisfaction and (2) to identify aspects of the head nurses' leader behavior that impact on staff nurses job satisfaction.

A descriptive survey research design was used to gather data from a sample population of 220 staff nurses from 24 patient care units in two Level II Veterans Administration Hospitals in the southeastern United States using a three-part survey instrument. The survey instrument included: (1) Demographic Data; (2) The Needs Satisfaction Instrument; and (3) The Leadership Opinion Questionnaire. The data collected were subjected to analysis of variance, paired t tests, linear and multiple regression.

Major conclusions that emerged from the findings were: (1) staff nurses perceived head nurse leadership behavior as being higher on consideration than on structure; (2) there were no significant relationships between perceived head nurse leadership behavior and selected demographic, situational, and organizational variables except for the variable patient capacity; (3) staff nurse job satisfaction was related to race, marital status, years of nursing experience, number of years in present position, size of unit, and willingness to accept other employment; and (4) staff nurse job satisfaction was positively correlated with perceived head nurse consideration behavior.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-04, Section: B, page: 1489.

Thesis (ED.D.)--NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1986.

School code: 0155.