NURSE EDUCATORS' LOCAL--COSMOPOLITAN ORIENTATIONS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD A PROJECTED CLINICAL PRACTICE MANDATE (FACULTY, PRACTICE).
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between nurse educators' local--cosmopolitan orientations and their: agreement with a projected clinical practice mandate, involvement in clinical practice, and ranking of factors that facilitate their practice. It was hypothesized that cosmopolitans would agree more with the projected mandate, engage in clinical practice more, and would rank factors facilitating their practice differently, than locals.

The sample consisted of 391 nurse educators from baccalaureate and higher degree nursing programs, in public or private colleges or universities, nationwide. The questionnaire had three parts: the Local--Cosmopolitan Tool; the Projected Clinical Practice Mandate Scale; and demographic questions on the nurse educators, and their clinical practice. Reliability coefficients were adequate for all scales. Data were analyzed using t-test; chi-square; and, Kendall's coefficient of concordance, followed by an F test. Though all stated hypotheses were not supported, there were slight differences between groups, as predicted by local--cosmopolitan theory. It was concluded that cosmopolitan nurse educators cannot be distinguished from locals, in terms of their: agreement with a projected clinical practice mandate, participation in clinical practice, and ranking of factors facilitating their practice. Ninety-five percent of the sample were within the theoretically-mixed range of local--cosmopolitanism. The majority identified themselves as "nurse-educators." All forms of clinical practice were reported, staff and volunteer nursing constituting the majority. Subjects ranked personal interest as most facilitative of their practice, tenure and workload least facilitative. The majority of subjects agreed with the need to practice for purposes of tenure. Recommendations were made for further studies of nurse educators' clinical practice and the possibility of a mixed local--cosmopolitan orientation predominating in this group.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: B, page: 1119.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1984.

School code: 0227.