Professional Satisfaction among Pass-out B.Sc. Nursing Students from BPKIHS
1. PROFESSIONAL SATISFACTION
PASS-
AMONG PASS-OUT B.SC. NURSING
STUDENTS OF BPKIHS
Investigator: Guide:
Ruby Yadav Mr. Ram Sharan Mehta
B.Sc. Nursing 4thYear Asso. Professor
Batch – 2005 Medical-
Medical-Surgical Nursing Department
Roll No. - 124 College of Nursing
2. NEED OF THE STUDY
• No study has been conducted to assess
the professional satisfaction
3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
• Most of the pass-out B.Sc. Nursing
pass-
graduates from BPKIHS are working
abroad, some within the country and only
few in BPKIHS, hence this study analyzes
their level of professional satisfaction.
• The results from the study will throw light
on whether the aspirations of students are
fulfilled by this profession or not.
4. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY (continue)
• Nursing administrators can use the result
from the study to find out the reasons for
dissatisfaction and the way for improving
it.
• It will contribute to the development of
the nursing profession as a whole.
5. PROBLEM STATEMENT
• Professional satisfaction among pass-out
pass-
B.Sc. Nursing students of BPKIHS from
batch 1996 to batch 2004.
6. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
• To identify the level of professional
satisfaction among pass-out B.Sc. Nursing
pass-
students from BPKIHS, 1996 to 2004
batch.
• To find out the association between
professional satisfaction and selected
variables.
• To compare the level of satisfaction
between the B.Sc. Nursing graduates
working in Nepal and abroad
7. HYPOTHESIS
• There will be no association between
professional satisfaction and selected
variables.
• There will be no association between level
of professional satisfaction of B.Sc.
Nursing graduates working in Nepal and
abroad.
8. OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS
Professional Satisfaction:
Satisfaction:
Satisfaction among B.Sc. Nursing graduates
related to practising nursing profession.
Pass-
Pass-out B.Sc. Nursing students:
Those who have completed B.Sc. Nursing
programme successfully form BPKIHS
from 1996 to 2004 batch.
9. STUDY VARIABLES
• Dependent variables:
- Professional Satisfaction
• Independent variables:
- Achievement
- Recognition and Accomplishment
- Challenging work
- Increased responsibility
- Growth and development
- Salary
- Interpersonal Relationship
- Working condition
- Supervision
- Status, security
10. THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
• Based on Theory of Motivation given by
Herzberg (modified)
Motivator Factors Hygiene Factors
The job itself Environment
Achievement Salary
Recognition and accomplishment Supervision
Challenging work Working condition
Increased responsibility Interpersonal relation
Growth and development status, security
11. Growth
Condition Respect
&
Develop
Increased ment
Responsi
Supervision
bility
Recognition
Inter
& Personal
Accomplish Relation
ment
ship
PROFESSIONAL
Challenging SATISFACTION Status
work Security
Achieve Salary
ment
DISSATISFIED
SATISFIED
Compromised quality of care,
Quality of care, Positive attitude
12. DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
• Pass-out B.Sc. Nursing graduates only
Pass-
from BPKIHS will be included in the study
• Data collection period will be only of 2
weeks.
13. METHODOLOGY
• Research Design : Descriptive cross
sectional study
• Research Setting: Pass-out B.Sc.
Pass-
Nursing students from BPKIHS from 1996
to 2004 batch working in Nepal and
abroad
14. • Study Population: All the pass-out B.Sc.
pass-
Nursing students from BPKIHS.
• Sample: Pass-out B.Sc. Nursing students who
Pass-
will meet the set criteria.
• Sample technique : A convenient and
snowball sampling technique will be used to
collect the data.
• Sample size : Around 54 subjects will be
included in the study.
15. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Inclusive criteria
- Pass-out B.Sc. Nursing students from
Pass-
BPKIHS from 1996 to 2004 batch
- involved in nursing profession
- give consent to participate in the study
16. Exclusion criteria
- have left the nursing profession
• Tools for data collection : Semi
structured questionnaire
17. PLAN FOR DATA COLLECTION
Data collection period: 2 weeks
Steps in data collection:
• List of pass-out B.Sc. Nursing students is
pass-
obtained from Academic Section
• Corresponding address collected (Record
section, available friends and relatives)
• Tool finalization
• Data collection
- BPKIHS : questionnaire directly
- Eastern region of Nepal : postal / visit / mail
- Kathmandu : mail / postal
- Abroad : mail
18. • Consent
- informed consent will be obtained from
those who are in direct contact
- details about confidentiality and use of
data for the research only will be
mentioned in front of the questionnaire
• Use of convenient and snowball sampling
technique for data collection.
19. VALIDITY OF THE RESEARCH TOOL
• Content and face validity of the tool will
be established by the review of literatures
and opinions of the experts from the field
of nursing education, management,
biostatistics, psychologist and the
concerned others.
20. PLAN FOR PRE-TESTING:
PRE-
• Pre-testing will be done by taking ten
Pre-
percent of the sample size.
21. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• Descriptive analysis (mean, median, mode,
standard deviation, frequency and percentage)
for describing the level of satisfaction.
• Inferential statistics : chi- square and association
chi-
will be used to find out the association between
the dependent and independent variables.