Registered Nurses' Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay Following Participation in Or Completion of a Nurse Residency Program at an Urban Eastern North Dakota Acute Care Setting

Download or read book Registered Nurses' Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay Following Participation in Or Completion of a Nurse Residency Program at an Urban Eastern North Dakota Acute Care Setting written by Carol Jean Roth and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to describe and correlate job satisfaction and intent to stay, among registered nurses who had completed or were currently participating in a nurse residency program while working at an acute care setting in eastern urban North Dakota with a nurse residency program. This study surveyed a sample of registered nurses (N = 12) who had completed or were currently participating in a nurse residency program at the acute care setting. The nurses were asked to self-report their level of job satisfaction utilizing the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale (MMSS) and intent to remain employed at this facility with their response to one survey question. The two theoretical models utilized in this study were Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the Hildegard E. Peplau Theory of Interpersonal Relations. The outcomes of this study indicate that the Nurse Residency Program is successful in keeping nurses employed at the setting, improving the transition from school to work environments, and providing ongoing support for the new graduate.