Effect of the Salary Model on Sustainability of a Professional Practice Environment
Rosa G Hickey1, Barbara L Buchko, Paula F Coe
1Author Affiliations: Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Patient Care (Ms Hickey), WellSpan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital; and Director of EBP and Nursing Research (Dr Buchko), WellSpan Health, York; Vice President, Nursing Education and Professional Practice (Dr Coe), Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh; and Professor and Chair of Department of Nursing (Dr Woods), Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Objective:
This replication study examined differences in RN perception of the professional practice environment (PPE) between salary- and hourly-wage compensation models over time.
Background:
A previous study demonstrated that nurses in a salary-wage model had a significantly higher perception of the PPE compared with their peers receiving hourly wages.
Methods:
A descriptive, comparative design was used to examine the Revised Professional Practice Environment (RPPE) scale of nurses in the same units surveyed in the previous study 2 years later.
Results:
Mean scores on the RPPE continued to be significantly lower for hourly-wage RNs compared with the RNs in the salary-wage model.
Conclusions:
Nurses in an hourly-wage unit have significantly lower perceptions of the clinical practice environment than their peers in a salary-wage unit, indicating that professional practice perceptions in a salary-wage unit were sustained for a 2-year period and may provide a more effective PPE.
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