Consideration of role acceptance and related factors of nurses who work in the nursery school

Abstract

 The objective of this study was to elucidate role acceptance and its associated factors among nurses working in nursery schools. The subjects were 759 nurses belonging to the Japanese Association of Health Nurses and Nurses in Nursery School. A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to the members and we received 182 responses back (response rate: 24%). The questions covered the current state of the nursery school, the background of nurses in nursery schools, health-related activities of nurses, and the degree of role acceptance. The role acceptance scale was used to measure the level of role acceptance, and we divided the subjects into three levels based on the mean±0.5 SD. The upper and lower groups were used for comparisons in the analyses. The results showed that significant differences were present in the following items: the presence/absence of disabled children requiring care, they chose to work at the nursery school so they could make use of their experiences, degree of satisfaction with pay, willingness to continue working, and the implementation status of childcare nursing. The results of the binomial logistic regression analysis showed that role acceptance was significantly related to the following items: interpersonal relationships in the workplace, working conditions, they chose to work at the nursery school so they could make use of their experiences, and satisfaction level with their treatment.