| Learning Objective #1: Identify the association between nurse faculty's role model behaviors and their attributes | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Find the degree of influence of each significant attribute on role model behaviors |
OBJECTIVE: To identify the association between nurse faculty's role model behaviors and their attributes. DESIGN: Descriptive and correlational research design. SAMPLE & SETTING: Eight hundred and fifteen full time nurse faculty who belong to baccalaureate program, associate degree program, and diploma program in nursing in Japan. CONCEPTS STUDIED TOGETHER: 1)Role model behavior of nurse faculty, 2)Thirty faculty's attributes selected from literature review METHODS: Self-Evaluation Scale on Role Model Behaviors of Nursing Faculty(RMBS) was used to measure faculty's perception on their role model behaviors. RMBS had been developed on qualitative research findings on student's perception of their faculty's role model behaviors in Japan. Questionnaire for Faculty's Attributes(QFA) was used to examine the thirty variables. The data were analyzed statistically, using correlation coefficients, t-test, ANOVA and stepwise multiple regression analysis. FINDINGS: The results of correlation coefficients, t-test, and ANOVA revealed that twenty-one among thirty faculty's attributes were related to their role model behaviors. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was conducted to find the degree of influence of each attribute to role model behaviors. As the result, clinical competence in nursing, years of teaching experience, job satisfaction, and amount of time spent to teach in clinical setting were found to be independent variables. The four attributes accounted for 37.6%(adjusted 36.7%) of the variance of attribute influence on role model behavior. Among them, clinical competence in nursing had the strongest influence on role model behavior accounting for 28.8%(adjusted 28.6%) of the variance. That is, the faculty who had the higher clinical competence in nursing obtained the higher score on RMBS. CONCLUSION: The result suggested, that, in order to reinforce students to develop their nursing professional behaviors and attributes, nurse faculty have to strengthen their clinical competence in nursing.
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