Abstract
The topic of nurse educator life balance is significant to the nurse educator community, which is facing a national nurse faculty shortage, challenges in producing enough new nurses, and a continuing shortage of nurses. This compromises patient safety and the quality of care. Major factors identified as contributing to the shortage of nurse educators are educator dissatisfaction with workload and work life balance. Life balance is described as an enjoyable array of daily activities that is meaningful and contributes to the individual's health. Professional quality of life is described as the quality one feels in relation to one's work as a helper and may be related to life balance in the nurse educator role. This mixed methods study used a sample of 32 nurse educators from Washington state to examine relationships that exist between nurse educator life balance as measured by the life balance inventory, and professional quality of life related to work as measured by the ProQOL 5 tool. The study also explored the lived experience of life balance phenomena through interviews with 12 nurse educators.
Sigma Membership
Delta Chi at-Large
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Phenomenology
Research Approach
Mixed/Multi Method Research
Keywords:
Work-Life Balance, Nurse Faculty, Quality of Life
Advisor
Carol Roehrs
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Northern Colorado
Degree Year
2015
Recommended Citation
Owens, Joan M., "Life balance in nurse educators: A mixed methods study" (2020). Dissertations. 583.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/583
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2020-05-28
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3728926; ProQuest document ID: 1734105632. The author still retains copyright.