Author : Margaret-Mary Swayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (492 download)
Book Synopsis The Relationship Between Participation in the Student Nurse Preceptor Program and Nursing Job Satisfaction by : Margaret-Mary Swayne
Download or read book The Relationship Between Participation in the Student Nurse Preceptor Program and Nursing Job Satisfaction written by Margaret-Mary Swayne and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reason for conducting this research project was the increasing rate of nurse turnover and job dissatisfaction at the staff nurse level. Today's professional nurse is overworked and over burdened with exceptionally difficult patient caseloads. Self esteem and self worth become low when job dissatisfaction is high. The goal of nursing administrators and nurse educators should be focused on retaining staff nurses and providing for high worker satisfaction. The purpose of this research study was to determine if participating in a student nurse preceptorship program increased the level of job satisfaction- experienced by the staff nurse. The Employee Assessment Tool is a thirty-five item quality of work analysis tool used to determine the importance of work factors and their relationship to job satisfaction. The tool was distributed to thirty nurses who were presently preceptors for student nurses, and thirty nurses who were not preceptors for students, and one hundred percent of the nurses responded and returned the questionnaire to this researcher. The hypothesis stated that nurses who work as student nurse preceptors have an enhanced sense of job satisfaction over nurses wh6 do not work as student nurses preceptors. This hypothesis was not found to be supported from the research data collected. A T-test was used to statistically analyze the data. Limitations of the study such as controlling for the number of times a nurse had worked as a preceptor, and that only one college program and hospital were used, may have lead to the unsupported results obtained. Recommendations for future research include using a larger sample population with greater control over how many times the nurse was a preceptor. More intensive research is needed in order to improve staff nurse retention and to increase the quality of the job satisfaction felt by the staff nurse.
