Abstract
The purpose of the study was to clarify the current status of the quality of occupational experience of hospital nurses, and to identify the relationships between it and attributes of nurses for developing a predictive theory of occupational experience of hospital nurses. The Quality of Occupational Experience Scale and the Questionnaire for Nurses' Attributes were used as instruments of the study. The instrument packets were distributed 1,060 nurses worked at general hospitals in Japan. The data were analyzed statistically (descriptive statistics, correlation coefficient, t-test, ANOVA). Seven hundreds and three (66.3%) nurses returned answers by mail, and 618 valid responses were analyzed. The results showed that nurses evaluated their quality of occupational experience highly, though it might be possible for them to improve it more highly. Furthermore, the quality of occupational experience of nurses related to 21 attributes of them, those were, “years of working as a nurse”, “position”, “income”, “satisfaction of working conditions”, and so on. Three hypothesis that had to be tested empirically for developing a predictive theory of occupational experience of nurses were generated from the results.
