Nursing Job Satisfaction. Would like your input for school project.

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Specializes in Registry, all over the place.

My classmates and I are to develop a theory on the topic of the effect of environment on performance. We would like to differentiate the elements of a nurse friendly facility and one that is not. Without using names or facility or other type of identifying information, it would be helpful for us if you all that wish to participate rate the following questions from 1-5 based on your current or most recent facility, 1 being poor and 5 being excellent. The last question is for elaboration on the other questions should you choose. If you could at the end just put the TYPE of facility and your department. Thank you all so much, this a huge help as between the five of us in my group we know only 3 nurses. Thank you in advance.

1. Do you feel you have autonomy in your nursing practice?

2. Do yoo feel the nurse patient ratio supports a safe environment?

3. Did you have an adequate orientation on your unit?

4. Does your facility support your ongoing education needs (ie. ceu, ADN, BSN, MSN)?

5. Do you feel your wages are competitve and recognize outstanding performance?

6. Does your facitlity recognize your individual merit?

7. Does your facility recognize the need for nurses to balance work and non-work life?

OPTIONAL

8. How satisified are you overall in your current facility?

Once again thank you all who respond so much, this will be incredibly helpful!

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Specializes in Registry, all over the place.

Thank you all who looked through the thread, was hoping for a good response. Maybe the mods. could help me and suggest a better area for the thread. A couple of responses would be very helpful.

Thanks

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

1. Do you feel you have autonomy in your nursing practice? Absolutely not.

2. Do you feel the nurse patient ratio supports a safe environment? Not really.

3. Did you have an adequate orientation on your unit? I work in LTC, so I had only one day of orientation. That wasn't adequate.

4. Does your facility support your ongoing education needs (ie. ceu, ADN, BSN, MSN)? They provide $1,000 in tuition reimbursement.

5. Do you feel your wages are competitve and recognize outstanding performance? I'm a new LVN who earns the same hourly rate as another LVN who has 17 years of experience. Is that fair to the experienced nurse?

6. Does your facitlity recognize your individual merit? No. They're simply happy that I show up for my shifts since they are so short-staffed.

7. Does your facility recognize the need for nurses to balance work and non-work life? No. They simply need to fill all of the vacant shifts.

OPTIONAL

8. How satisified are you overall in your current facility? It's okay.

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

Hoping - check your pm's.

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Specializes in long term care, med-surg, PACU, Pre-Op.
My classmates and I are to develop a theory on the topic of the effect of environment on performance. We would like to differentiate the elements of a nurse friendly facility and one that is not. Without using names or facility or other type of identifying information, it would be helpful for us if you all that wish to participate rate the following questions from 1-5 based on your current or most recent facility, 1 being poor and 5 being excellent. The last question is for elaboration on the other questions should you choose. If you could at the end just put the TYPE of facility and your department. Thank you all so much, this a huge help as between the five of us in my group we know only 3 nurses. Thank you in advance.

1. Do you feel you have autonomy in your nursing practice? Yes, 4

2. Do yoo feel the nurse patient ratio supports a safe environment?

Yes, 4

3. Did you have an adequate orientation on your unit? Yes, 5

4. Does your facility support your ongoing education needs (ie. ceu, ADN, BSN, MSN)?

Yes, 5, tuition reimbursement and will pay you for your time to go to conferences and reimburse for some of fees.

5. Do you feel your wages are competitve and recognize outstanding performance?

Yes, 4

6. Does your facitlity recognize your individual merit?

Encourages certification, 4

7. Does your facility recognize the need for nurses to balance work and non-work life?

yes, 3

OPTIONAL

8. How satisified are you overall in your current facility?

4

Once again thank you all who respond so much, this will be incredibly helpful!

Facility:hospital, PACU
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Specializes in Registry, all over the place.

Thank you who all who responded! It is going to help us tremendously in developing a theory of the nursing environment and nursing performance. We appreciate all your time.

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My classmates and I are to develop a theory on the topic of the effect of environment on performance. We would like to differentiate the elements of a nurse friendly facility and one that is not. Without using names or facility or other type of identifying information, it would be helpful for us if you all that wish to participate rate the following questions from 1-5 based on your current or most recent facility, 1 being poor and 5 being excellent. The last question is for elaboration on the other questions should you choose. If you could at the end just put the TYPE of facility and your department. Thank you all so much, this a huge help as between the five of us in my group we know only 3 nurses. Thank you in advance.

1. Do you feel you have autonomy in your nursing practice? Not too much.

2. Do yoo feel the nurse patient ratio supports a safe environment? so so

3. Did you have an adequate orientation on your unit? yes

4. Does your facility support your ongoing education needs (ie. ceu, ADN, BSN, MSN)? not really

5. Do you feel your wages are competitve and recognize outstanding performance? They are way, way, way too low.

6. Does your facitlity recognize your individual merit? Not sure what this means.

7. Does your facility recognize the need for nurses to balance work and non-work life? yes but the bottom line is the facility has to be staffed and that is their priority

OPTIONAL

8. How satisified are you overall in your current facility? not very

Once again thank you all who respond so much, this will be incredibly helpful!

Can you do a thread on your results?

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Specializes in Med Surg, Telemetry, Orthopedics.

1. Do you feel you have autonomy in your nursing practice? 2

2. Do yoo feel the nurse patient ratio supports a safe environment? 2

3. Did you have an adequate orientation on your unit? 3

4. Does your facility support your ongoing education needs (ie. ceu, ADN, BSN, MSN)? 1

5. Do you feel your wages are competitve and recognize outstanding performance? 1

6. Does your facitlity recognize your individual merit? 2

7. Does your facility recognize the need for nurses to balance work and non-work life? 3

OPTIONAL

8. How satisified are you overall in your current facility? 2

Hospital, MedSurg unit

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Specializes in tele, stepdown/PCU, med/surg.

1. Do you feel you have autonomy in your nursing practice?Yes but I believe that's mostly due to me working on the night shift.

2. Do yoo feel the nurse patient ratio supports a safe environment?Most of the time but it depends on acuity.

3. Did you have an adequate orientation on your unit?Yes

4. Does your facility support your ongoing education needs (ie. ceu, ADN, BSN, MSN)?I believe ongoing education within the hospital (inservices etc) are severely lacking.

5. Do you feel your wages are competitve and recognize outstanding performance?Yes

6. Does your facitlity recognize your individual merit?Yes

7. Does your facility recognize the need for nurses to balance work and non-work life?Yes

OPTIONAL

8. How satisified are you overall in your current facility? Very satisfied

Once again thank you all who respond so much, this will be incredibly helpful!

BTW, this is a medium-sized non-teaching, not-for-profit community hospital.

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Specializes in Registry, all over the place.

Thank you to all who took the time to respond! Your response will help us so much with our project.

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.
1. do you feel you have autonomy in your nursing practice? 4

2. do yoo feel the nurse patient ratio supports a safe environment? 3 (speaking for my department only ... can't really comment on other inpatient units)

3. did you have an adequate orientation on your unit? 5

4. does your facility support your ongoing education needs (ie. ceu, adn, bsn, msn)? 4

5. do you feel your wages are competitve and recognize outstanding performance? 3

6. does your facitlity recognize your individual merit? 2

7. does your facility recognize the need for nurses to balance work and non-work life? 3

optional

8. how satisified are you overall in your current facility? 4

once again thank you all who respond so much, this will be incredibly helpful!

i work for a 550 bed non-profit teaching hospital.

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On questions #1-7, all answers = 5

Questions #8, answer= very

However, my answers would have been very different when working on a different unit in this hospital.

Good luck! Will we be able to see the results of your research?

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