Highlights
- •Academic nursing administrators are crucial for the future nursing workforce, and vacancies are on the rise.
- •Recognizing factors associated with job satisfaction and intent to stay is important for programs of nursing in university settings.
- •Workplace factors were found to have a significant relationship to job satisfaction and intent to stay in a sample of nursing administrators.
- •Modifiable factors should be considered for change of policies in higher education to recruit and retain academic nursing administrators.
Abstract
Background
In nursing education, the academic administrator is critical given the multitude of
challenges associated with program delivery (e.g., shortages of faculty, strict and
changing regulations for program accreditation, and the sheer demand for more nurses).
Unfortunately, with the focus on recruiting and retaining new novice faculty to teach
students, academic nursing administrators have been overlooked in recent studies.
Purpose
As such, this study aims to explore the workplace satisfaction and intent to stay
of academic nursing administrators by considering their relation to a variety of demographic
and work related variables.
Methods
A secondary data source was used from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher
Education (COACHE). One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with post hoc Fisher's Least
Significant Difference tests and t-tests were used in the analysis.
Discussion/Conclusion
Results indicate that several modifiable work factors positively relate to both job
satisfaction and intent to stay.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 12, 2016
Accepted:
July 4,
2016
Received in revised form:
June 13,
2016
Received:
March 29,
2016
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