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For instance, the study included mostly white females, leaving the reader to wonder if males or people from different ethnicities or from different age groups have their own unique criteria for work satisfaction. Supporting this is the fact that the study found that Blacks were less satisfied than Whites. The researchers also suggest the inclusion of additional factors that may affect attitudes and satisfaction such as communication with physicians. In particular, as Advanced Practice Nurses subsume some of the roles traditionally allocated to the physician, it will be interesting to see if interactions with physicians becomes are greater issue for satisfaction for all nurses.
Generalization of Findings
The authors generalize their findings to all MSAs based on random sampling of MSAs and then registered nurses working in those MSAs. However, the researchers acknowledge that these areas have their own unique characteristics that prevent generalization to non-MSA areas.
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The abstract provides an excellent summary of the article. The article is well organized and uses good sentence structures. The tables are very effective for presenting data definitions and presenting survey results and the demographics of survey respondents.
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