A Three-Year Survey of Hospital Nurses’Quality of Working Life - Final Year Post-registration Education Nursing Students

A Three-Year Survey of Hospital Nurses’Quality of Working Life - Final Year Post-registration Education Nursing Students

Purpose: The aim of the present study is to investigate how hospital nurses perceive their quality ofworking life while attending RN-to-BSN programs.Methods: This three-year study used a longitudinal time-series research design with data collected bya survey administered at a medical university in Taiwan. Study subjects included registered nurses who,while working full time in hospitals, were concurrently enrolled in an RN-to-BSN program at a medicaluniversity. Data were collected in the second week of the second semester of the students’final year in theprogram. The Hospital Nurses’Quality of Working Life Questionnaire was used. The range of Cronbach’salpha for the instrument was 0.80 to 0.89.Results: Over the three years, a consistent low mean value of around 2.5 was found for welfare inorganizational aspects, working and non-working time utilization, and job prospects in self-actualization.Lesson learned from the SARS experience, during Covid 19 pandemic, praises for nurses’contributions onCOVID-19 front line reinforce the weakness of nurses’working life on work related dimensions.Conclusion: The findings of this research reveal what happens to nurses’working lives when they workfull time and are enrolled in an RN-to-BSN program. The information obtained through the questionnairemay prove valuable to hospital managers concerned with improving nurses’workplace environment aspart of their efforts to improve both nurse retention and the quality of service their nurses provide.