Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 1 Survey, 2009 (ICPSR 36819)
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Christine Kovner, Rory Meyers College of Nursing;
Carol Brewer, University of Buffalo School of Nursing
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36819.v2
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The Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Cohort 1 Survey, 2009 is the first wave of a multi-wave panel survey that studied newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between August 1, 2007 and July 31, 2008. It was conducted as part of the RN Work Project, a national study of new nurses funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The survey interviewed the nurses about their jobs, turnover, education, intentions and attitudes--including intent, satisfaction, organizational commitment, and preferences about work.
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- Additional information about the survey is available on the RN Work Project website.
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The purpose of the NLRN Cohort 1 Survey was to:
- Describe newly licensed registered nurses' changes in work patterns and factors associated with those changes over an extended time period by following the panel from our current Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded study for an additional six years
- Compare educational background, work setting, and work satisfaction among three different cohorts of NLRN
- Describe the training about patient safety of NLRNs employed in hospitals
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Panel data was used for this study and all others in the series because it made it possible to determine the similarities and differencies in groups graduating in different years. That information provides an indication of changes in the environment or in those people who choose nursing as a career. Collecting data on two additional cohorts helped the researchers separate the threats to internal validity of history versus maturational effects. Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI) determined the distribution of nurses by site needed in order to achieve a minimum of 1,500 completed surveys. Each nurse was assigned a random number. This list was then organized by each of the 27 sites and sorted according to random numbers. The first N (number of respondents needed) were selected from each site.
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The sample design for the New Cohort study sampled new RNs residing in 25 MSAs and 2 rural counties in 15 states across the country. For additional information, please refer to the User Guide
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Newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between August 1, 2007 and July 1, 2008.
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58% of nurses contacted for wave 1 returned a completed survey.
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Large variety of scales from literature and questions identical to HRSA National Sample Survey - RNs 2005
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2018-02-28
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2020-02-20 Online variable search capabilities have been added for this study.
2018-02-28 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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The sample was weighted prior to collecting data so that analyses could be done without weighting final data set. We did not weight final sample by response rates from specific geographic areas.
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This study is maintained and distributed by the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA). HMCA is the official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.