In the 35th week, we read and talked about a paper from International Journal of Nursing Studies. The title of the article is “The work setting of diabetes nursing specialists in the Nether lands: A questionnaire Survey.”
The main purpose of this study was to extend knowledge about the work situation of diabetes specialist nurses, shortly DSN, and to explore whether the work organization of DSNs differs significantly from nurses working in hospital and nursing home and if so, does this difference result in positive or negative consequences for work and health. The author measured the data of three items: organization, work aspects, and psychological reactions by questionnaire in three different samples: nurses working in hospitals, nurses working in nursing homes, and DSNs working in other health care settings. Then, the author compared and analysed these data by statistics.
At last, the author found there were some characteristics about the work of DSNs, in comparison with nurses employed in hospitals and nursing home. They scored lower in these factors: environmental uncertainty, workload, social support, role conflict, and psychosomatic health，and scored higher in autonomy, role ambiguity and intrinsic work motivation, etc. This study indicated DSNs were believed more Positively in their work organization, work aspects and psychological work reactions than nurses employed in other health care setting, except for social support and role ambiguity.
The author advised we should decrease role ambiguity and increase social support for continued improvement of the work situation of DSNs.
Except for study methods and findings, from this paper, we learned also how to express some statistical terms in English, such as regression analysis(回归分析), Hierarchical multiple regression analysis(多元回归分析),Variable(变量)，Statistical package for social sciences Version 11.0 for windows(spss,11.0版本)，positive relation with／positive associated with(正相关),reliability 信度，etc.
YangQun.
