Male Nurse Practitioners' Views on Nursing Education As a Career Option: an Inductive Qualitative Content Analysis

View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Aquila Digital Community The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Fall 2018 Male Nurse Practitioners' Views on Nursing Education as a Career Option: An Inductive Qualitative Content Analysis James McDavid University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Nursing Commons Recommended Citation McDavid, James, "Male Nurse Practitioners' Views on Nursing Education as a Career Option: An Inductive Qualitative Content Analysis" (2018). Dissertations. 1596. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1596 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MALE NURSE PRACTITIONERS’ VIEWS ON NURSING EDUCATION AS A CAREER OPTION: AN INDUCTIVE QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS by James McDavid A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School, the College of Nursing and Health Professions and the School of Leadership and Advanced Practice Nursing at The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Approved by: Dr. Janie Butts, Committee Chair Dr. Lachel Story Dr. Sheila Davis Dr. Kathleen Masters Dr. Demetrius Porche ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Dr. Janie Butts Dr. Lachel Story Dr. Karen S. Coats Committee Chair School Director Dean of the Graduate School December 2018 COPYRIGHT BY James McDavid 2018 Published by the Graduate School ABSTRACT As the nursing shortage continues, the demand for new nurses will increase. In 2015, nursing schools in the United States turned away 62,361 qualified applicants in the baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs (Fang, Li, Arietti, & Trautman, 2016). The number of funded, vacant nursing faculty positions increased from 6.9% in 2014 to 7.1% in 2015 (Fang et al., 2016). One idea to help with the nursing faculty shortage is to recruit male RNs into nurse faculty positions. Males count for 10.6% of nurses in the United States (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2016). However, men only count for 5.5% of full-time faculty at baccalaureate and higher-degree schools of nursing (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2013). An inductive qualitative content analysis was done to determine why males do not choose nursing faculty positions as career choices. Ten nurse practitioners were interviewed and recorded. Two categories abstracted from the interviews were Gender and Rewards. Stereotyping issues still need to be overcome by nursing as a profession and society as a whole if more males are to consider nursing faculty positions as a career option. Also, the rewards of teaching need to include internal and external rewards which are important to male nurses. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Janie Butts, my chair, and my other committee members. iii DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this dissertation to my wife and three children. Without their love and support, I would not have been able to accomplish this endeavor. My wife has allowed me to pursue this dream and was inspirational throughout the completion. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................ ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................. iii DEDICATION ................................................................................................................... iv LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................... viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................ ix CHAPTER I –INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 10 Problem Statement ........................................................................................................ 11 Purpose .......................................................................................................................... 12 Operational Definitions ................................................................................................. 13 Assumptions, Limitations, Scope, and Delimitations ................................................... 13 Significance of the Study .............................................................................................. 14 Transition Statement ..................................................................................................... 15 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 16 CHAPTER II – REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE......................................................... 17 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 17 Current Nursing Shortage and Potential Solutions ....................................................... 18 Males in Nursing Programs .......................................................................................... 21 Vocational Choices for Males in Nursing ..................................................................... 25 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 28 v CHAPTER III - METHOD ............................................................................................... 29 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 29 Research Design and Approach .................................................................................... 29 Trustworthiness ............................................................................................................. 30 Role of the Researcher .................................................................................................. 31 Instrument Development ............................................................................................... 33 Procedures for Participant Selection ............................................................................. 34 Measures for Ethical Protection of the Participants ...................................................... 34 Criteria for Selecting Participants ................................................................................. 35 Data Collection ............................................................................................................. 36 Data Analysis ................................................................................................................ 36 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 38 CHAPTER IV – PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA ................................. 39 Evidence of Quality ...................................................................................................... 40 Findings......................................................................................................................... 40 Description of the Findings by Interview Question ...................................................... 46 Question 1 ................................................................................................................. 46 Question 2 ................................................................................................................. 47 Question 4 ................................................................................................................. 48 Question 5 ................................................................................................................. 49 vi Question 6 ................................................................................................................. 50 Question 7 ................................................................................................................. 51 Question 8 ................................................................................................................. 51 Question 9 ................................................................................................................. 52 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 52 CHAPTER V – DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS, AND ................................................ 56 Recommendations ......................................................................................................... 56 Interpretation of Findings ............................................................................................. 57 Implications for Social Change ..................................................................................... 59 Recommendations for Action ....................................................................................... 61 Reflections .................................................................................................................... 63 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................

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