ATTITUDES OF NURSE EDUCATORS, NURSING PRACTITIONERS AND NURSING SERVICE DIRECTORS TOWARD COMPETENCIES HELD BY BEGINNING BACCALAUREATE PRACTITIONERS.
Contributors: University of Toledo.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This investigation was designed to determine the attitudes of three professional nurse groups toward the competencies of beginning baccalaureate practitioners. The study tested the hypotheses (4) that there will be no differences in attitudes among baccalaureate nurse educators, beginning baccalaureate practitioners, and nursing service directors toward specified competencies held by beginning baccalaureate nurses.

Three professional groups of nurses were selected by a process of systematic random sampling from the entire nurse population in Ohio. A total of eighty baccalaureate nurse educators from eight baccalaureate schools of nursing were utilized. Ninety nursing service directors were selected from acute care institutions of over 100 beds in size. One hundred-eighty beginning baccalaureate practitioners were selected from the same acute care institutions as the nursing service directors.

The Beginning Baccalaureate Practitioner Competency Questionnaire was pilot tested for reliability prior to distribution to all participants. The questionnaire had a coefficient alpha of .97 for a significant level of reliability. The results were statistically significant for differences in attitudes among the three nurse groups. Baccalaureate nurse educators and beginning baccalaureate practitioners were not significantly different in attitudes from each other but the nursing service directors were consistently and significantly different in attitudes from the educators and practitioners in all three subscales--cognitive, psychosocial, and psychomotor and in the overall competencies.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-08, Section: B, page: 2619.

Thesis (ED.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, 1985.

School code: 0232.