Nursing Faculty Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the causal effects among the variables mentoring, job stress, incivility, organizational commitment, and occupational commitment on faculty job satisfaction and the intent to stay in academia of Georgia's associate degree nursing (ADN) faculty. An 87-item Nursing Faculty Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay Questionnaire was constructed from seven existing instruments and validated. A total of 134 of 217 (61.8%) nursing faculty responded to the survey. A structural equation model was generated and tested to examine the relationships among variables and to identify the effects on job satisfaction and intent to stay in academia.

Factors influencing nursing faculty members' intent to stay: A structural equation modeling approach

“…Similarly, the more satisfied they were with their job choices and their positions, the more likely they were to stay employed (Theucksuban et al, 2022). Scholars have mentioned that improving JS among nursing faculty members would improve ITS (Darnell et al, 2020). Satisfied faculty members show more motivation to teach and to stay in their positions (Emory & Kippenbrock, 2023).…”

“…It is widely accepted that ITS is a vital construct for faculty member retention (Byrne et al, 2022) and a clear, inverse indicator of the likelihood of turnover (Price & Mueller, 1981). Accordingly, to meaningfully support faculty retention, it is necessary to investigate the critical points that reinforce ITS in academia (WHO, 2020b) and the factors that impact this intention (Darnell et al, 2020). However, locally or internationally, little is known about the associations between ITS and its impacting factors among nursing faculty members.…”

“…The capacity to teach students effectively and to run nursing programs efficiently may be hindered if qualified nursing faculty members continue to leave (Myint et al, 2023). However, it is impossible to train adequate and qualified professional nurses without retaining nursing faculty members in the teaching profession (Darnell et al, 2020). For nursing faculty members, dissatisfaction with existing jobs, high demands, and work overload are common (Dalby et al, 2020).…”

“…For intervening variables , nursing faculty members who experience lower job stress experience real enjoyment and show a willingness to stay (Darnell et al, 2020; Myint et al, 2023). The factors directly affecting the ITS of nursing faculty members from Georgia nursing schools were job satisfaction (Darnell et al, 2020) and organizational commitment (Darnell et al, 2020; Myint et al, 2023). Nursing faculty members who experience more happiness and contentment have devotion to their organization as well as enhanced ITS.…”

The Experience of Being a Full-Time Academic Nurse Educator During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…In pre-COVID-19 nursing education, working conditions influenced ANE job satisfaction, burnout, and resilience. Faculty satisfaction is a known predictor of intent to stay in a nursing faculty position (Darnell et al, 2020). Two years prior to the pandemic, ANEs reported fair to very favorable levels of job satisfaction that they attributed to personal, organizational, managerial, academic, professional, and economic conditions (Arian et al, 2018).…”