PARTICIPATION IN AND MOTIVATION FOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES BY REGISTERED NURSES EMPLOYED FULL-TIME IN ACUTE CARE FACILITIES IN THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS REGION (KENTUCKY, MISSOURI).
Contributors: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: Full-time registered nurses in 16 hospitals in southern Illinois, western Kentucky, and southeastern Missouri were surveyed for their participation in and motivation for professional activities. Professional activities selected for the study were reading nursing journals, attending continuing education programs, and belonging to nursing organizations. A total of 770 respondents completed the Registered Nurses Professional Activities Survey (RNPAS) for a response rate of 60%.

An overwhelming majority of registered nurses felt that nursing was a profession. However, their participation in professional activities were self-rated as minimally to moderately active. There was a significant difference between nurses' perceived "actual" participation and nurses' perception of the amount of participation they should have for professional activities. Registered nurses selected continuing education programs as contributing most to the development and advancement of nursing practice.

Seven motivation factors were selected to investigate what had or would have motivated nurses to participate in professional activities. Increases in salary or promotion were analyzed as the strongest motivation factor for all three professional activities by each type of nursing graduate, associate degree (ADN), diploma, and baccalaureate degree (BSN). Registered nurses' basic nursing program ranked lowest or next to the lowest as a motivation factor in influencing nurses to participate in professional activities.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-03, Section: B, page: 1347.

Thesis (PH.D.)--SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE, 1994.

School code: 0209.