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K Gardner

(14,933 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:10 AM Oct 2013

Desperately Need Responses from Union RNs...

I'm working on my Master's thesis in Nursing. My project is a comparison of job satisfaction scores between nurses who work in unionized settings and those who do not. I'm coming up very short on responses from nurses who are in unions. If any of you know any nurses who belong to unions, or work in states where staffing ratios are mandated to safe levels, please pass on this link and ask them to take just a few minutes to take my survey. I think the unionization of nurses is a very important and timely topic and I'd be happy to post the results here when I'm finished in a few months ! Thank you for any help you can provide..

Kay Gardner

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DQLLJR7

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Desperately Need Responses from Union RNs... (Original Post) K Gardner Oct 2013 OP

me! riverwalker Oct 2013 #1

Well, here's the reason.. I was forced to use a "validated instrument" in the survey.. K Gardner Oct 2013 #4

will do AllyCat Oct 2013 #2

Contact National Nurses and AFT NHLabor Oct 2013 #3

I was actually a rep for my state at the CNA (now NNU) 2006 conference and got to meet K Gardner Oct 2013 #5

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)

1. me!

Reply to K Gardner (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:39 AM

Oct 2013

Kay, your survey places way too much emphasis on supervisor/staff relationships. We never see our supervisors and are pretty autonomous.

K Gardner

(14,933 posts)

4. Well, here's the reason.. I was forced to use a "validated instrument" in the survey..

Reply to riverwalker (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 11:59 AM

Oct 2013

and all surveys that are really pertinent and specific to nursing (like the Stamps and Piedmonte Work Satisfaction Scale) are extremely expensive to get permissions to use. Casey-Fink is free, but it just goes on and on and on and is specific to Magnet hospitals. I really agonized over this, and finally used Dr. Paul Spectors Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) which is free to researchers and academics, as long as he gets the results. I realize it is NOT the perfect tool, but trying to create one of my own and get it validated by Chronbachs alpha or a panel of experts, was just a nightmare.

So, it is what it is, and should I ever decide to go for my PhD, I'll preplan a little better ! But after doing this "thesis", which is a dissertation under another name, I think I'm hanging it up !!

Thank you so much for your input !

Kay

AllyCat

(16,189 posts)

2. will do

Reply to K Gardner (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 01:04 AM

Oct 2013

NHLabor

(70 posts)

3. Contact National Nurses and AFT

Reply to K Gardner (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:02 PM

Oct 2013

If you are looking for union nurses, go to the source. National Nurses United is the largest nursing union in the US. AFT also represent nurses. If you contact them directly they can help connect you with people (possibly in your area) who are union nurses who would speak with you.

Cheers

Matt

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K Gardner

(14,933 posts)

5. I was actually a rep for my state at the CNA (now NNU) 2006 conference and got to meet

Reply to NHLabor (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 12:04 PM

Oct 2013

Rose Ann DeMoro and many of the leaders of the now-NNU. I did contact them and was really hoping they would help me get some of their California RNs on board, but the only advice I got was to "post it on Allnurses". For anyone who is wondering, Allnurses is pretty much dead, LOL. So I've just been trolling the internet and trying to find my audience. Jan Rodolfo, from NNU, did post the link on her web page, and Shum Preston (with SEIU) has promised to send it out to his contacts as well, so hopefully in another week or so I will have enough of a sample to start statistical analysis. Which is going to be a nightmare. The JSS, which is embedded after the demographics, has 9 subscales. Oy vey.

We're talking MANOVA, alpha coefficients and reliability verification for each scale.. just kill me now !! I'm a nurse, not a statistician !!

Thanks for the input !!

Kay

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