Conflict management behavior of the staff nurse.

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Title Conflict management behavior of the staff nurse.
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Barker, Gayle
Date 1984-08
Description The purpose of this study was to determine the conflict management behavior modes most often employed by the registered staff nurse at McKay-Dee hospital Center in Ogden, Utah and St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. To accomplish this objective, a descriptive approach was employed using a questionnaire, and adaptation of the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, along with a demographic information form. This questionnaire contains 30 forced-choice statements, allowing the participant to select each of five behavior modes from 0 (for very low) to 12 (for high use) times each. Analysis of the results revealed that all five behavior modes were used to differing degrees. The avoidance mode was used with the greatest frequency, followed by the compromise mode, with the accommodation mode third, collaboration fourth, and the competing mode being used the least. The chi-square statistic was used in determining if a relationship existed between the behavior mode selection and the age, sex, extent of basic and higher education, length of Nursing; experience, and experience in conflict management class. Analysis of each of the areas revealed a probability value greater than .25 (p?.25) leading to the conclusion that there was not a significant relationship between the behavior mode selected and the characteristics of the group being examined.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Conflict Management; Utah; Nurses
Subject MESH Nursing; Staff; Conflict (Psychology)
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Conflict management behavior of the staff nurse." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Conflict management behavior of the staff nurse." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. HM 15.5 1984 B37.
Rights Management © Gayle Barker.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,13272
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Setname ir_etd
ID 193935
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q24dx9
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