JOB SATISFACTION OF LICENSED NURSES WORKING IN KANSAS NURSING HOMES.
Contributors: Kansas State University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This random, stratified, descriptive study examined the job satisfaction of licensed nurses working in Kansas nursing homes. Subjects numbered 222, predominantly female licensed nurses. One hundred eleven registered nurses and 111 licensed practical nurses represented a 25 percent sample of a total population of 820 licensed nurses working in nursing homes throughout Kansas.

Job satisfaction attitudes and selected Biographic Variables were studied. The Stamps and Piedmonte (1986) Work Satisfaction Scale Part B was used to measure the subjects' job satisfaction. Social Exchange Theory was used to examine the relationship of five selected Biographic Variables to their Job Satisfaction Scores and Group.

Licensed nurses reported a Total Satisfaction Score of 3.34 on a 5-point scale. RNs had a 3.39 score while LPNs a score of 3.29. For the Pay Component there was a statistically significant difference between groups (p $<$.05). The ranking of the remaining six Components from highest to lowest was Job Status, Autonomy, M.D.-Nurse Interaction, Interaction, Organizational Requirements, Pay, and Task Requirements.

Certain Biographic Variables were statistically significant (p $<$.05) when compared to each of the seven Components and the Group (RN or LPN). These were Shift worked, Length of Job Tenure, Position held, Size of Nursing home, Reason for working in a nursing home, and Education Program from which graduated. All but Reason for working in a nursing home appeared more than once. Length of job tenure followed by Shift worked appeared more times than any of the others.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-07, Section: B, page: 2850.

Thesis (PH.D.)--KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0100.