Southeastern Appalachian community's acceptance of the family nurse practitioner in the emergency department

The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study was to examine the acceptance of an Appalachian community's acceptance of a family nurse practitioner in the emergency department.A conceptual framework of leek Ajzen(1988) was used to predict the acceptance of a family nurse practitioner in the emergency department from a sample of participants in a community.Subjects (n=109) from a sample in Maryville, Tennessee who were shopping at Wal-Mart® were used in this study.A tool in which acceptance was acknowledged was used, and yes and no answers were seen as acceptance or nonacceptance.Descriptive statistics suggest that the sample overall was accepting of the tasks listed on the tool that nurse practitioners could perform in the emergency department setting. Frequencies and percentages showed no score lower than 73% on the acceptance scale of the survey.Four out of the ten tasks listed on the tool scored 90% or better for acceptance in having the skill delivered by a nurse practitioner in the emergency department.Pearson correlation coefficient was utilized to determine if a significant correlation exists between the demographic variables of age, educational level,occupational level,gender and acceptance of care by the family nurse practitioner in the emergency department.The relationship between age and acceptance of care approached significance.Additional data of intent was obtained in the research process, but was recorded as additional findings.Pearson correlation coefficient determined that there was a significant relationship between the educational levels of the participants and the intent to be seen by a family nurse practitioner in the emergency department.This research study suggests that this particular sample of participants was accepting of care that would be delivered by a family nurse practitioner in the emergency department.This research study does not make inferences that this population is representative of the all emergency department consumers.This study can suggest that the Southeastern Appalachian community under investigation was accepting of care that would be delivered by a family nurse practitioner in the emergency department.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Rowland-Khashman, Tami

Contributors dc:contributor

• Anderson, Barbara K.
• Ch'ien, Anne; Wertenberger, Dana
• College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies

• Nurse practitioners--Public opinion
• Emergency nursing--Public opinion
• Community health services--Appalachian Region
• Health services accessibility--Tennessee--Maryville

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Identifier

LB2369.2 .R684 1999

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2116