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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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Professional Status of Staff Nurses
Pattamaporn Sunpornchaiyapong, RN, MSN, In-patient Unit, Chaibadan Hospital, Lamnarai, Lopburi, Thailand and Areewan Oumtanee, RN, PhD, Faculty of Nursing, Chulalongkorn University, Pratumwan, Thailand.
Learning Objective #1: understand concept of the professional status |
Learning Objective #2: examine the predictors of professional status of staff nurses |
The purposes of this study were to examine the relationship between leadership of nursing manager, characteristics of working staff, physical environment, working device organizational support, human resource management and professional status and to study predictors of professional status of staff nurses working in a tertiary hospital. Study subjects consisted of 228 staff nurses. Professional status were used as a study conceptual framework and developed study questionnaires. The questionnaires of leadership of nursing manager, characteristics of working staff, physical environment, working device, organizational support, human resource management and professional status were tested for content validity and reliability with the alpha of .97, .92, .92, .94, .91 and .92 respectively. Statistical methods of frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression were used to analyze study data.
Major findings were as follows:
1. Physical environment was not related to professional status of staff nurses.
2. Human resource management, organizational support, characteristics of working staff , working device, leadership of nursing manager were positively and significantly related to professional status of staff nurses, at .05 level
(r = .509, .504, .494, .488 and .445 respectively
).
2. Factors significantly predicted professional status of staff nurses were leadership of nursing manager , characteristics of working staff, organizational support, human resource management at .05 level. These predictors were accounted for 39 percents of variance (R
2 =.388).