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Registered Nurse Educational Level And The Decision To Work As A Hospital Staff Nurse

Registered Nurse Educational Level And The Decision To Work As A Hospital Staff Nurse. Lynn Unruh, PhD, RN, LHRM Jackie Zhang, PhD University of Central Florida lunruh@mail.ucf.edu Academy Health Annual Meeting Orlando, FL, June 2-5, 2007. Presentation Topics.

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Registered Nurse Educational Level And The Decision To Work As A Hospital Staff Nurse

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  1. Registered Nurse Educational Level And The Decision To Work As A Hospital Staff Nurse Lynn Unruh, PhD, RN, LHRM Jackie Zhang, PhD University of Central Florida lunruh@mail.ucf.edu Academy Health Annual Meeting Orlando, FL, June 2-5, 2007

  2. Presentation Topics • Research rationale & questions • Prior studies • Data sources and measures • Statistical analysis • Results • Discussion

  3. Research Rationale and Questions • Nursing leaders are calling for making a BSN the entry-level educational requirement for RNs • Do BSN-prepared RNs work in the hospital bedside setting in the same proportion as diploma and ADN-prepared RNs? • Would making the entry-level requirement a BSN accentuate the nursing shortage?

  4. Prior Studies • Brewer and Nauenberg (2003) • Around ½ of the studies of RN participation in nursing work find a negative effect from education: • Ault and colleagues (1994) • Ezrati (1987) • Two studies find a positive effect from education : • Buerhaus, et al., (1991) • Chiha & Link (2003) • Others find no effect

  5. Study Design • The influence of educational preparation on the likelihood of RN’s working as staff nurses in the hospitals is analyzed using: • Standard labor supply model • Stratified samples based on • Gender • Marital status • Other demographic and employment variables • Statistical tests for the endogeneity of wages

  6. Data Source and Sample • National Sample Survey of RNs (NSSRN) from the U.S. DHHS, BHP • Year 2000 data • The sample taken from NSSRN • included diploma, AD & BD-prepared RN’s • excluded PhD and Master’s prepared RN’s

  7. Measures • Response variable • RN working in a hospital in a staff nurse role or not • Explanatory variables: ● Educational level ● Demographic characteristics ● Employment • Instrumental variables to test for endogeniety of wage variable: • Inpatient days in the county • Median income in the county

  8. Statistical Analysis • Imputed wages for non-working RNs • Model was run using OLS • Main model was rested for endogeneity of wages • Found to not be a problem • Logistic regression of the binary hospital staff nurse employment variable on the explanatory variables • Logistic models were run unstratified, and stratified for gender and marital status

  9. Analysis cont. • Probabilities of hospital staff nurse employment given life stage profiles • Estimation of impact on hospital nursing shortage using probabilities from logistic regression: • [(Prob BD – Prob Dip) X (% Dip graduates)] + [(Prob BD – Prob AD) X (% AD graduates)]

  10. Results: Logistic of Working as a Hospital Staff Nurse *p<.05; **p<.01; ***p<.001; ****p<.0001

  11. Results: Logistic of Working as a Hospital Staff Nurse *p<.05; **p<.01; ***p<.001; ****p<.0001

  12. Results: Probability of Working as a Hospital Staff Nurse by RN Profiles

  13. Results: Probability of Working as a Hospital Staff Nurse by RN Profiles

  14. Results: Probability of Working as a Hospital Staff Nurse by RN Profiles

  15. Results Summary: • Compared to an RN with a BD, the odds of working as a hospital staff nurse are • 27% higher if the RN has a diploma • 38% higher if RN has an AD • Compared to an RN with a BD, the probability of being more likely to work as a hospital staff nurse is: • 5.5% higher if the RN has a diploma • 8% higher if the RN has an AD

  16. Results Summary: • There is a statistically strong relationship between working as a hospital staff nurse and • age (-) • presence of children (-) • gender (female = -) • race (Asian = +) • working in the northeast and south (-) • additional degrees (-) • previous degrees (+) • working fulltime (+) • wages (+)

  17. Results: Impact on Hospital Staff Nurse Shortage • Our estimate shows that the supply of hospital staff nurses could fall by: • (.3414 - .3969)(3.77%) + (.3414 - .4177)(61%) = • (-5.5%)(3.77%) + (-7.63%)(61%) = • -0.20% + -4.65% = • -4.85%

  18. Discussion • 5% decline in hospital staff nurses should not be ignored • Hospital staff nurse supply can be improved by • Labor market adjustments • Wage adjustment • Policy or administrative directions • RN workforce with children • Older RN workforce • Narrow the job attractiveness gap • Improvement in working conditions • Increase number of new entrants

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