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Friday, April 12, 2013
Learning Objective 1: The research measures the correlation and predictability of the relationship between self-directed learning and career satisfaction and discusses implications for the profession.
Learning Objective 2: Discover what nurses reveal about healthy hospital working environments, the key to career satisfaction. This research may offer insight to improved recruitment and retention strategies.
This research examined the relationship between self-directed lifelong learning (SDLL) and career satisfaction (CS) of nurses who have worked in a hospital for at least three years. Using a correlational design and mixed methodology, this study examined if Registered Nurses who consider themselves happy in their hospital nursing careers, are also self-directed lifelong learners and to what degree and magnitude. Second, this research measured if self-directed lifelong learning can predict career happiness? The qualitative inquiry included five open ended questions, which added depth, meaning, and support to the quantitative findings. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis showed that most constructs of SDLL were positively correlated to CS at significance levels of p < 0.01. Multiple regression analysis showed that two subscales of SDLL, namely planning and implementation and interpersonal communication, predict 25% of career satisfaction levels, at significance levels of p< 0.05, for the sample (N=197) of hospital nurses who took the online survey. Human Resources of hospitals, hospital management, and nursing school program directors can use findings from this study to design and implement strategies to promote self-directional learning environments which may promote career satisfaction and improve retention rates of Registered Nurses.