Factors associated with graduate social work student satisfaction in hospital field education programs.
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Title
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Factors associated with graduate social work student satisfaction in hospital field education programs.
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Identifier
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AAI8821120
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identifier
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8821120
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Creator
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Showers, Nancy.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Irwin Epstein
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Date
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1988
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Social Work | Health Sciences, Education
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Abstract
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Fundamental changes in health care delivery systems are creating problems of: (1) how to provide quality field education to graduate social work students within turbulent health care settings; and (2) how to reshape both class and field education to meet the long term needs of the radically changing field of hospital social work practice. This study was intended to provide an empirical base useful in addressing these problems.;The author surveyed 27 hospital field work programs provided by hospital social work departments in New York City. The purposes of the study were to describe characteristics of existing programs and to determine how those characteristics affected five areas of student satisfaction with field work.;Questionnaires were administered to 27 program coordinators and to 238 graduate social work students. Rates of student satisfaction with learning, with field instructors, with field work programs, and with the overall field work experience were found to be higher than satisfaction rates reported elsewhere. Satisfaction with host hospitals, however, was lower than the general range reported for field work satisfaction.;Hospital departments of social work were found to have contributed substantial resources to field work education. Programs structurally were much more complex than indicated by the social work field education literature, providing for rich and diverse learning experiences for both students and supervisors. Variability in characteristics was noted within as well as among programs.;A total of 49 independent variables were found to be significantly correlated with one or more measures of student satisfaction. Of these, student perceptions about program characteristics, and differences in perceptions of student-coordinator pairs about program characteristics, showed stronger correlations with satisfaction than the program characteristics themselves. Perceptions about supervisory relationship characteristics were most predictive of student satisfaction with field instructors; supervisory teaching characteristics most predictive of satisfaction with learning: learning assignment opportunities most predictive of satisfaction with the field work program; stress most predictive of satisfaction with the hospital; and differences in perceptions about program organization most predictive of overall satisfaction with the field work experience.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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D.S.W.
