Abstract

The United States faces a shortage of nursing faculty members, impacting the nation's ability to meet the demand for more nurses in the workforce. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that predicted nurse faculty members' intent to stay in academe. Dozens of factors were identified in the literature and grouped using Herzberg's (1966) motivation-hygiene theory of job satisfaction. An online questionnaire was administered to 402 full-time prelicensure baccalaureate nursing faculty in the United States. The survey measured personal, job, and organizational factors including demographics, emotional intelligence, resilience, educational preparation, self-efficacy, mentoring and orientation, interpersonal relationships, and satisfaction with multiple aspects of the job and organizational leadership and policies. Using stepwise, multiple, and simple linear regression analyses, eight factors emerged as statistically significant predictors of nurse faculty members' intent to stay in academe: satisfaction with the work itself, satisfaction with salary, years of academic teaching experience, satisfaction with interpersonal relationships, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, graduate education with an emphasis in education, and satisfaction with organizational and administrative policies. Academic nursing leaders could use these findings to inform hiring and mentoring practices to maximize retention of faculty members.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 30000813; ProQuest document ID: 2771685384. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Erica Frost, PhD, RN, CNE, CCRN-K

Sigma Membership

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Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Nursing Education, Job Satisfaction, Retention, Shortage, Nursing Faculty

Advisor

Darcy A. Copeland

Second Advisor

Melissa Henry

Third Advisor

Natalie Pool

Fourth Advisor

Thomas Dunn

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Northern Colorado

Degree Year

2022

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None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2023-09-01

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