A Study of Relationship between Expected Job Stress and Intention to Nursing Practice among Different Nursing Programs of Graduate Nursing Students

• Main Authors: Hsu Hui - Li, 徐惠麗
• Other Authors: Chang Hsiao - Yun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27150707310165551104

碩士 === 輔英科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 101 === Abstract Stable and sufficient nursing workforce is vital for the quality of patient care. The Ministry of Education enthusiastically cultivates nursing students every year in hopes of that all the nursing students will apply their knowledge, enrich the nursing workforce, and provide optimal care quality after graduating from schools. However, the responses after such a long time are still that each medical organization gradually reduces the sickbeds due to insufficient nursing workforce. A great number of studies show that work stress from nursing is a critical factor that nurses refuse to work as nurses. Do nursing graduates change their careers in advance since they feel the stress even before becoming nurses? This study was aimed to investigate work stress expected from nursing by nursing graduates from different school systems and factors in nursing career aspirations. A cross-sectional study design and a structured questionnaire were employed in this study, and convenience sampling of groups was used to investigate 878 nursing graduates from universities, two-year colleges, four-year colleges, and five-year junior colleges, who were in the second semester of the 101 school year. According to the research result, (1) the overall expected work stress expected by the graduates from universities was the highest, followed by respectively two-year colleges, five-year junior colleges, and four-year colleges. (2) The stress that the graduates felt from the dimension of “work tasks” was the highest among the dimensions of expected work stress. (3) The graduates from four-year colleges had the highest career recognition for nursing whereas the graduates from universities had the lowest career recognition for nursing. (4) Nursing career recognition and expected work stress were significantly negatively correlated, indicating that the higher one’s nursing recognition is, the lower the work stress is. (5) Although nursing work stress is high, 85.3% of the nursing graduates still would like to work in clinic nursing after graduating from schools. Meanwhile, 16.63% of the graduates chose further education, career change, or others. This indicates that a great number of graduates may start their nursing careers with a wait-and-see attitude, and they may change their jobs once their work stress increases, or their job satisfaction reduces. It is thus suggested that nursing superintendents should make work plans suitable for new nursing graduates and provide counseling systems in order to reduce the uncertainty of new nursing graduates, increase the retention rate, and maintain the professional commitment of nurses for nursing.