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Characteristics of graduate nurses in Kenya (n = 355)

Characteristics of graduate nurses in Kenya (n = 355)

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Background Nurses comprise the dominant cadre of healthcare workers yet there remains an acute shortage of nurses globally with Africa most affected. However, access to higher nursing education in sub-Saharan Africa remains limited. We aimed to i) Assess the need for a Master of Nursing (MScN) program among graduate nurses in Kenya ii) Identify pre...

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... volunteers that were non interns and employed, majority were working in public facilities (n = 94, 56.9%), did not have administrative duties at their place of work (n = 100, 60.6%), had a working experience of less than ve years (n = 64, 38.8%) and were working in the Medical-surgical department (n = 107, 64.9%). Among volunteers who were working, majority had at least one colleague with MScN training (n = 188, 55.1%), believed the organization they worked for would benet if more MScN graduates were employed (n = 318, 93.3%), felt they needed further training to cope with their current duties (n = 306, 89.7%) and believed nurses with inferior qualications were carrying out duties that ought to be a preserve of those with MScN training (n = 165, 48.4%) [ Table 1]. Job satisfaction (M/SD) -24.9 (4.6) 25.0 (4.6) 25.0 (4.5) *N = 165; Excludes interns (n = 168), unemployed nurses (n = 14) and self-employed nurses (n = 8) M (Mean); SD (Standard deviation). ...
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... a majority of the volunteers (n = 319, 89.9%) felt their skills were inferior to their responsibilities (under-skilled) while (n = 34, 9.6%) felt they were over-skilled (Table 1). Compared to volunteers who felt they were over-skilled, a bigger proportion of those who felt under-skilled expressed a desire to pursue an MScN (Fig. 4[a]). ...
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... mean (standard deviation) of job satisfaction among the volunteers was 25.0 (4.5) ( Table 1). The WOFS was found to be reliable (Cronbach's alpha = 0.7305). ...