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Nurse-environment misfit and nursing practice.

M Takase¹, E Kershaw, L Burt

¹School of Nursing, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. m.takase@latrobe.edu.au

Journal of Advanced Nursing

|September 14, 2001

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Nurses perceive a discrepancy between their professional image and public perception, contributing to job dissatisfaction and lower performance. Improving the public image of nursing is crucial for professional advancement.

Area of Science:

Nursing
Sociology of Professions
Organizational Psychology

Background:

Societal stereotypes constrain nursing professionalization, creating a dual structure.
This person-environment misfit is hypothesized to cause job dissatisfaction and low performance.
Limited research exists on the impact of nursing image discrepancy.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate nurses' perceptions of the discrepancy between public and nursing professional images.
To examine the relationship between this image discrepancy and nurses' self-concept, job satisfaction, and performance.

Main Methods:

Descriptive correlational study conducted in 1999 with 80 Australian registered nurses.
Utilized the Porter Nursing Image Scale, Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS), and Six-Dimension Scale of Nursing Performance.

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Data analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation.

Main Results:

A significant discrepancy exists between nurses' and the public's perception of the nursing profession.
This discrepancy contributes to a nurse-environment misfit.
The misfit negatively correlated with nurses' job satisfaction and performance.

Conclusions:

Evidence suggests improving the public image of nurses can enhance professionalization.
Addressing the image discrepancy may improve job satisfaction and performance.
Further research with larger samples is warranted.