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Transformational Leadership And Structural Empowerment For Nurse Managers To Improve Nursing Job Satisfaction, Engagement, And Retention, Leah M. Gehri
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Problem Description
Low nurse job satisfaction and engagement have historically been associated with high attrition. While it is too soon to fully quantify the impact of Covid-19 on nurse satisfaction, engagement, and turnover, evidence is emerging that high chronic fatigue and persistent feelings of being overwhelmed are causing nurses to either leave the bedside or quit nursing altogether, exacerbating existing nurse staffing challenges caused by a decades long nursing shortage that, pre-pandemic, predicted a national deficit of over one-half million nurses by 2030. The financial impact of competing for experienced nurses, and recruiting, hiring, and training new nurses to replace …
Evaluating Adn Faculty Job Satisfaction, Karen M. Thies
Evaluating Adn Faculty Job Satisfaction, Karen M. Thies
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Background
The U.S. is facing a critical shortage of nurses as the aging baby boomer generation is requiring more nursing care. Contributing to the nursing shortage is the inability to educate larger numbers of nurses, attributable to a lack of nursing faculty. Insufficient numbers of nursing faculty results in qualified applicants being turned away from nursing programs.
Project Design
This project evaluated faculty job satisfaction in 703 accredited Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) programs in the U.S. The Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS) (Stamps, 1997), was designed to measure specific factors of nurses' job satisfaction and was emailed to all full …