I've said it before and I must repeat myself...it sure is hard getting nurses to write. I left the survey up on my web site for 9 month and managed to get only 15 responses. So of course this makes the results (in a researches mind) somewhat limited.
So are nurses too shy to fill in surveys? Too busy? Not intersted?
Or perhaps the nursing shortage is not as severe as we are lead to believe and very few nursing care mistakes occur?
Perhaps for now you should decide for yourselves. In the mean time here are the results.
>Age of nurse respondance: 53.3% had ove 10 years experience; 33.3% had 6 - 10 years experience; 13.3% had 1 -5 years in
>Current education level: Doctoral 0%; Masters 13.3%; Baccalaureate (BN, BSN) 13.3%; Degree/Associate (RN) 73.3%
>Increasing education level in the future? 66.7% said yes; 20% were unsure
>Just over half, 53.3%, said they wouldNOT be intersted in teaching positions in nursing schools
>What should the education level of nursing instructors be? Only 13.3% felt a Doctorate was necessary, compared to 60% who felt a Baccelaureate degree was enough
>60% admitted to making a patient care error
>77.8% were medication errors, 22.2% treatment
>90.9% felt a nursing staff shortage played a role in the error
>But only 53.8 % felt the facility where they presently worked was dealing with a nursing shortage
>85.7% worked overtime shifts, 23.1% because of necessity, and 69.2% worked extra as a combination of necessity and choice
>The final question was addressing whether the nurses were planning on leaving the nursing profession within the next 5 years.
66.7% said no, 13.3% said yes, and unfortunately 20% were still undecided
