JOB SATISFACTION AND VALUE PROFILES OF REGISTERED NURSES IN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This study sought to answer the question "What is the relationship between registered nurses' values and nurses' levels of job satisfaction within the nurses' work setting?" Questionnaire packets contained a letter of introduction and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. The Rokeach Value Survey, a demographic data form, and a return envelope were mailed to fifteen hundred registered nurses in Dade County, Florida. The subjects were selected from a computer randomized list of nurses who were currently licensed to practice nursing in the State of Florida. Two hundred and seventy seven completed questionnaires were received. These questionnaires were coded and the data was entered into the computer.

The average age of the participants was 45.46 years. Ninety-six percent of the participants were female. Over fifty percent of the nurses were currently married while 30% of the nurses had never married. The ethnicity of this sample was overwhelmingly white (non-hispanic), which accounted for nearly 80% of the nurses. The entry level education into nursing for most nurses in the study was at the diploma level, followed by baccalaureate nurses. The category addressing highest degree earned demonstrated that of the 120 entry level diploma nurses, forty had gone on for higher education. Eleven percent of the nurses in this study had masters degrees or doctorate degrees.

The major research question, "What is the relationship between registered nurses' values and nurses' levels of job satisfaction within the work environment?" was analyzed through the stepwise method of multiple regression. No relationship was determined for this sample.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-08, Section: B, page: 2625.

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

School code: 0227.