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East Tennessee State University

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

1987

Nursing

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Beliefs Concerning Role Of The Nursing Service Administrator In Hospitals As Expressed By Chief Executive Officers, Nursing Service Administrators, And Nurse Educators, Jimmie R. Williams Dec 1987

Beliefs Concerning Role Of The Nursing Service Administrator In Hospitals As Expressed By Chief Executive Officers, Nursing Service Administrators, And Nurse Educators, Jimmie R. Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was undertaken to determine the degree of relationship in perceptions held by three health care administrative groups between the desirable and actual role functions of the hospital nursing service administrator. This descriptive study surveyed hospital Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), and Nursing Service Administrators (NSAs) in 100 randomly selected general hospitals, and chairpersons of graduate programs in nursing service administration. The instrument for this study was the Beliefs Concerning Role of Hospital Nursing Service Administrator, a 12-item instrument designed to determine some of the desirable (optimal) and actual (currently performed) role functions of the hospital Nursing Service Administrator (NSA), …