Disability Employment Research: Survey Design for Workforce Study
This doctoral thesis proposal sets up research questions, hypotheses for testing and problem statement, regarding employment for workers with disabilities in the U.S. and specifically the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area. The proposal sets out sample survey instrument items for jury review and deployment in the workplace, general population and supportive services sector, interviewing workers with and without disabilities about their job satisfaction and productivity. The ultimate dissertation will report field statistics describing correlation and ANOVA means comparison between variables like hours worked, age, disability, employment tenure, and other relevant proxies for job satisfaction and productivity, many of them modelled after existing research precedent.
Environment Affects Nurses Over and Again, Literature
Over and again, literature reviews show the consistent relationship and association between nurse working environment and patient outcome as well as superior nurse performance (Aiken et al., 1999; Aiken et al., 1994; Lake, 2004). Better environments result in better nurse care as this case model shows. The case model was based on the study popularized in our institution that was directed by Aiken et al. (2008) who sought to examine whether better hospital nurse care environments were associated with lower patient mortality and better nurse outcomes irrespective of nurse education and the quality and quantity of nurse staffing.