Job satisfaction among family nurse practitioners in Mississippi
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Danielle Raye Saxon, MSN, RNC-MNN, IBCLC
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Job satisfaction for nurses is a concern, as job satisfaction can have an effect on a health care organization's ability to retain staff and recruit new nurses. Job performance is also affected when job satisfaction is low. This descriptive correlational study was designed to answer two research questions: (1) What is the over-all level of job satisfaction among family nurse practitioners in Mississippi and (2) What are the relationships between job satisfaction and instrinsic and extrinsic factors a measured by the Misener Job Satisfaction Scale among family nurse practitioners in Mississippi? The intrinsic factos included feelings of achievement, opportunities for advancement and growth, meaningful work, increase in responsibility, and recognition, and the extrinsic factors included job security, pay, status, working conditions, fringe benefits, policies and procedure, and interpersonal relations (Herzberg, 1959). The chosen population was family nurse practitioners currently licensed, employed, and practicing in the state of Mississippi and who are members of the Mississippi Nurses' Association. Software from Surveymonkey.com was utilized to create a professional online survey. The survey was posted online on the Mississippi Nurses' Association nurse practitioner listserv. Descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlations were use to analyze the data. Findings of this research study were that the overall average job statisfaction level of the Mississippi family nurse practitioners was minimally satisfied correlating with a 4.9 on the Likert scale. Responses for the factors ranged from a mean of 4.7 to 5.4 on the Likert scale correlating with minimally satisfied for all the factors excluding challenge/autonomy which correlated with satisfied. The factors in order from lowest to highest scores were professional growth and intrapractice partnership/collegiality (4.7/6.0); time and benefits (4.8/6.0); professional, social, and community interaction (4.9/6.0); and challenge/autonomy (5.4/6.0). A relationship between the overall level of job satisfaction and the above factors was found to be statistically significant at the 0.01 level of significance (two-tailed).
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Type | Thesis |
Acquisition | Proxy-submission |
Review Type | None: Degree-based Submission |
Format | Text-based Document |
Evidence Level | Descriptive/Correlational |
Research Approach | Quantitative Research |
Keywords | Job Satisfaction; Family Nurse Practitioners; Nurse Retention |
Grantor | Alcorn State University |
Advisor | Godley, Linda; Brown, Meg; Blanchard, Diane |
Level | Master's |
Year | 2012 |
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