This study was designed to survey attitudes of nursing profession of clinical nurses.
The following specific 5 objectives were investingated and the attitudes of clinical nurses were de termined.
1. The social position of nursing as a profession.
2. Factos influencing the development of nursing.
3. Thefuture of nursing.
4. Their work.
5. Job satisfaction.
The subjects consisted of 120 nurses who are working at 5 general hospital over 150 beds in CHONG NAM.
The nurses were surveyed by means of a questionnaire from may 24 to Jun 15, 1992. The tool used for this study was bsed on earlier work by Lee, Nam Hi (1978) and Kim, Myong Hee (1984).
Computer was used for Data Analysis.
Frequency and Percentage were used to examine the general characteristics of the subjects. ANOVA and t-test were used to test the relation in characteristics of the subjects and attitudes toward nursing prfession.
@ES The finding fo this study were as folows;
@EN 1. Social position of nursing as a profession;
The response with the highest agreement was "The professional nursing organization is less powerful than the other professional organization" 3.333 points, and the response with the lowest agreement was "Nursing get a big salary" 2.225 points.
2. Factors influencing the development of nursing;
the response with the highest agreement was "Hospital environment should be improved" 4.267 points, and the response with the lowest agreement was "Nurses satisfaction with salary" 2.175 points.
3. The future of nursing ;
the response with the highest agreement was "Along the development of science technique will be elevated educational state and graduate to needed in nursing" 3.958 points, and showed generally positive response toxard the future of nursing.
4. Their work;
the response with the highest agreement was "Work loading due to nursing staff insufficient" 4.308 points, the response with the lowest agreement was "Nurses are unkind to patient" 2.508 points.
5. The subject's view regarding job satisfaction ; it showed that "Interpersonal nursing staffs" 3.508 points, showed generally unsatisfactory response toward job satisfaction.
6. The relationship between the subject's attitudes toward professional nursing and general characteristics showed a significant difference statistically in regard to the field of work (P<.05).
7. The relationship between general characteristics and the subject's attitudes toward factors influencing the development of nursing showed a significant difference statistically in regard to the age and the status of position (P<.05).
The subject's attitude toward the future of nursing showed a significant difference statistically in regard to the age and the period of nursing career and the field of work (P<.05, P<.005). The subject's attitude toward the job satisfaction
showed
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significant difference statistically in regard to the age and the period of nursing career and the status of position and the field of work (P<.005).
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