RE-ENTRY PROBLEMS OF FIRST-LINE NURSE MANAGERS ENROLLED IN BACCALAUREATE NURSING PROGRAMS.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Education, Administration.; Education, Health.; Education, Higher.
Description: This study examined the re-entry problems of female first-line nurse managers enrolled in a single extended baccalaureate nursing program in southwestern Pennsylvania. The first of two research questions dealt with the degree to which these managers experienced Ekstrom's (1972) institutional and situational barriers in their first year returning to school. The second question addressed the degree to which these students experienced Ekstrom's dispositional barrier of role conflict/role ambiguity in their first nursing course.

Data were collected by mailing 106 questionnaires to all female first-line nurse managers enrolled in the first nursing courses during the 1985-86 academic year. Fifty five questionnaires were returned, representing a 52% response rate. The extent to which the participants experienced institutional and situational barriers was measured by a researcher-designed tool based on Ekstrom's framework. The dispositional barrier of role conflict/role ambiguity was measured by Rizzo's (1970) Role Conflict/Role Ambiguity Scale.

Descriptive statistics were used to identify frequency of response, ranging from not at all to a very great degree for 18 institutional and 16 situational barriers. The institutional barrier with the greatest mean (1.57) was obtaining credit for non-classroom learning. Academic counseling was problematic to a very great degree for 16% of the respondents. The situational barrier of the necessity of working full-time yielded the highest mean (1.74), followed by reluctance to use family funds for education (x = 1.53). Role conflict had a mean score of 49.04 with a standard deviation of 11.64. In terms of role ambiguity, the mean score was 49.40 with a standard deviation of 12.33.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-06, Section: A, page: 1367.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1987.

School code: 0178.