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S Eckerling

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PubMed1995

Professional expectations and activities of nurses in Israel.

A total of 159 nurses participating in study days throughout Israel responded to a questionnaire on professional expectations and activities. Their age ranged from 26 to 73; 66% received their basic nursing education in diploma schools for registered nurses, but 36.5% had completed or were studying towards a post-basic baccalaureate degree in nursing and 23.2% were studying towards or had completed a master's degree. The highest percentage of respondents--92% expected to be involved much and very much in clinical decision-making. The professional activity most nurses were involved in (86.8%) was 'professional reading'. Multiple stepwise regression showed that continuing education explained 25.9% of the variance of professional activities. No satisfactory explained variance was achieved on professional expectations. In this convenience sample the percentage of academic nurses was higher than in the working force in Israel.

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PubMed1991

Perceptions and attitudes of registered nurses to research: a comparison with a previous study.

Registered nurses' perceptions of research activities were examined and compared to those of academic nursing students at Tel-Aviv University in a previous paper. The study concentrated on attitudes, role perception, ability and intention to perform those activities in the future. The research activities were: 'read research', 'encourage colleagues to read research', 'apply research findings' and 'initiate research'. It was found that RNs viewed all research activities favourably, but slightly lower, sometimes significantly so, than the academic nursing students. RNs with Masters degrees scored significantly higher than RNs without academic degrees. The multiple regression analysis in both studies showed an interplay between ability to perform research activities and attitudes toward them; where 'ability' was higher, 'attitudes' towards research activities were more positive, and vice versa.

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PubMed1988

Perceptions and attitudes of academic nursing students to research.

Tel Aviv University students' perceptions of nursing research activities were examined. Specifically, the research concentrated on attitudes, role perception, ability and behavioural intention to perform research in the future. It was found that nurses in all stages of their academic studies, viewed research activities favourably on all four measures. Differences, however, were shown on the subjects' rating of their ability to perform research, their attitudes and their intentions to engage in research activity, according to their job level and academic level. No differences were found on the four measures when examined by work domain or clinical area. The multiple regression analysis showed that the best predictor of the intent to do research was the perception of ability, followed by the perception of research as part of the nursing role and the subjects' attitudes towards research.

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