Authors
Linda Flynn, Jenny Carryer, Claire Budge
Publication date
2005/3
Journal
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
67-72
Publisher
Blackwell Science Inc
Description
Purpose: To determine whether hospital‐based, home care, and district nurses identify a core set of organizational attributes in the nursing work environment that they value as important to the support of professional practice.
Design: Survey data, collected in 2002–2003 from 403 home care nurses in the United States (US) and 320 district nurses in New Zealand (NZ), were pooled with an existing data set of 669 hospital‐based nurses to conduct this descriptive, nonexperimental study.
Methods: The importance of organizational attributes in the nursing work environment was measured using the Nursing Work Index‐Revised (NWI‐R). Frequency distributions and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data.
Findings: At least 80% of hospital‐based, home care, and district nurses either agreed or strongly agreed that 47 of the 49 …
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L Flynn, J Carryer, C Budge - Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2005