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Dissertation Information for Marie E. Cowart

NAME:
- Marie E. Cowart
- (Alias) Marie Cowart

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Nursing

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1982)

ADVISORS:
- None

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected

Title: A COMPARISON OF ATTITUDES, WORKING CONDITIONS, AND NURSING PRACTICE OF FOREIGN NURSE GRADUATES AND U.S. NURSE GRADUATES IN FLORIDA, 1981

Abstract: This study examined certain characteristics of licensed nurses by the geographic background of their basic nursing education, in order to determine whether differences in attitudes, practice patterns, and working conditions exist between foreign nurse graduates and U.S. nurse graduates. Independent systematic samples of U.S. nurse graduates and FNGs were selected from individuals applying for nurse licensure in Florida from July 1, 1978 to June 30, 1980. Individuals who became licensed and who subsequently renewed their license and responded to a questionnaire accompanying the renewal form comprised the sample yields. The two samples of nurses were examined by each variable using the chi-square. All variables were significant at the 0.05 level of probability, but many of the differences were small. Four world regions had enough subjects to be studied using the chi-square test: the Philippines, the British Isles, Canada, and Jamaica/Bahamas. Significant differences in the distributions were demonstrated for: age, type of basic nursing education, opportunity to use skills, desire for a change in responsibility in the nursing position, shift worked and annual salary. Nurses from the British Isles and Jamaica/Bahamas were observed to function most like U.S. nurses while those from the Philippines were most dissimilar. Further analysis demonstrated differences for three variables, for the attitude variables and for shift worked and annual salary. The FNG reports many similarities to the U.S. prepared nurse. Reports of choice of work setting, primary nursing specialty, attitudes about the benefit of continuing education, number of hours worked weekly, and title of the nursing position, while statistically significant in their differences, actually are small enough to have little social significance. Since the socially significant differences in the two groups of nurses are attributed to personal/social characteristics as well as to geographic origin, one may conclude: (1) Nurses choices in attitudes and practice patterns will vary by age and by their basic nursing educational preparation, (2) Nurses with cultural origins that are most distinctive from the U.S. will contribute more differences in practice than nurses whose cultural origins share many similarities with the U.S.

MPACT Scores for Marie E. Cowart

A = 0
C = 3
A+C = 3
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2008-01-31 06:05:47

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