Sağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi (May 2014)

Factors Related with Levels of Performance and Occupational-Personal Characteristics of Nurse Graduates

  • Ülkü Tatar Baykal,
  • Serap Yazıcı Altuntaş

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5222/SHYD.2014.025
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 25 – 36

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: A significant indicator of the quality of educational institutions is the level of performance that the graduates demonstrate in professional life. The study was performed as descriptive and cross sectional, with the aim of determining graduates' characteristics and performance levels and the factors which affect them. METHODS: The study was performed in 36 hospitals in a city with the aim of reaching the graduates of a nursing school. 380 nurses who worked in hospitals in sample group and accepted to participate to study, were reached but analyses were calculated according to 314 of questionnaires which were filled correctly. As a data collecting tool, a performance assessment form that has 95 items and a survey that aims to determine the occupational-personal variables of graduates and their managers those were developed by the researchers were used. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the performance assessment form was 0.98 for managers' assessment form and it was 0.96 for graduates' self-assessment forms. Research was prosecuted after getting official permissions from relevant institutions and approvals from ethical boards of the university hospitals by distributing and collecting questionnaires. All collected data were transferred to computer and were analyzed by statisticians by using t-test and chi-square analyses. RESULTS: It was defined that majority of the graduates worked in university hospitals; they were bedsides nurses and were younger with less professional experience. It was found that they distinguished themselves from other graduates with BA degree particularly concerning theoretical knowledge and professional expectations and solidarity among them was poor. CONCLUSION: According to performance assessment results, graduates had higher scores at total scale and sub-scales and there were statistically significant differences between groups (p<0.05).

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