Dr. Zurmehly (2008) “The relationship of educational preparation, autonomy, and critical thinking to nursing job satisfaction” which was published in the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 39(10).
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.MA3010: LP9 Assignment: Article #6

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Dr. Zurmehly (2008) “The relationship of educational preparation, autonomy, and critical thinking to nursing job satisfaction” which was published in the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 39(10).

1.)  What type of study design was utilized and what variables were examined?

2.)  Write an appropriate null hypothesis for the study.

3.)  Write an appropriate alternative hypothesis.

4.)  Was the sample randomized?  How does this affect the interpretation of the results?

5.)  What were the inclusion criteria for the study?

6.)  The authors describe the demographics of their sample and compare them to demographics in national samples.  Why?

7)  A Pearson moment correlation was used to examine the relationship between autonomy and job satisfaction using the MSQ scores.  Was this the appropriate correlation coefficient?

8.)  Read the Autonomy and Job Satisfaction section. What was the result of the Pearson analysis and is it significant?

9.)  Additional analysis was done to look at critical thinking and job satisfaction among the different groups of nurses and a Pearson’s r of -0.572 (p<0.01) is reported for management nurses.  Interpret this result statistically.

10.)  Interpret this result in English.