1. First you should address these questions when conducting survey research:
Open-ended Question
____ diploma
____ associate degree (ADN)
____ baccalaureate degree (BSN)
____ generic master’s degree (MSN)
____ nurse doctorate degree (ND)
____ AJN
____ Heart & Lung
____ Nursing Research
____ Other (specify ____________________)
Checklists
1. Nursing is a strong profession. ____ Yes ____ No
2. Nursing is a highly-valued profession. ____ Yes ____ No
3. Nursing actions are dependent on doctors’ orders. ____ Yes ____ No
Likert Scales
Statement
Strongly Agree
Agree
Not Sure
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
Examples
1. The nursing profession is strong.
2. Nursing is a highly-valued profession.
3. Nursing actions are dependent on doctors’ orders
Semantic Differential Scales
NURSING
Strong :___:___:___:___:___:___:___:Weak
Highly Valued :___:___:___:___:___:___:___:Under-Valued
Dependent :___:___:___:___:___:___:___:Independent
Visual Analog Scales
I believe that the nursing profession is:
Weak ____________________________________________ Strong
5.Remember to always measure your variables at the highest level of measurement possible. You can always transform interval and ratio levels of measurement to nominal and ordinal levels of measurement but you cannot transform nominal and ordinal levels of measurement into interval and ratio levels of measurement.
- What do you want to know?
- Why do you need the data?
- Who do you need to survey?
- How will you get the data?
- What resources do you need?
- Demographics
- Attitudes
- Behaviors
- Opinions
- Evaluation
- Needs assessment
- Nominal – names categories (e.g., gender: male or female)
- Ordinal – rank orders categories (e.g., patient acuity level: critical, poor, fair, good))
- Interval – continuous scale with no real zero (e.g., Anxiety score of 20 to 100)
- Ratio– continuous scale with real zero (e.g., yrs. of nursing experience 0 to 40)
Open-ended Question
- What is your age? ______ years
- Mutually Exclusive Options
- Collectively Exhaustive Options
____ diploma
____ associate degree (ADN)
____ baccalaureate degree (BSN)
____ generic master’s degree (MSN)
____ nurse doctorate degree (ND)
- Neither Mutually Exclusive Nor Collectively Exhaustive Options
____ AJN
____ Heart & Lung
____ Nursing Research
____ Other (specify ____________________)
Checklists
1. Nursing is a strong profession. ____ Yes ____ No
2. Nursing is a highly-valued profession. ____ Yes ____ No
3. Nursing actions are dependent on doctors’ orders. ____ Yes ____ No
Likert Scales
Statement
Strongly Agree
Agree
Not Sure
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
Examples
1. The nursing profession is strong.
2. Nursing is a highly-valued profession.
3. Nursing actions are dependent on doctors’ orders
Semantic Differential Scales
NURSING
Strong :___:___:___:___:___:___:___:Weak
Highly Valued :___:___:___:___:___:___:___:Under-Valued
Dependent :___:___:___:___:___:___:___:Independent
Visual Analog Scales
I believe that the nursing profession is:
Weak ____________________________________________ Strong
5.Remember to always measure your variables at the highest level of measurement possible. You can always transform interval and ratio levels of measurement to nominal and ordinal levels of measurement but you cannot transform nominal and ordinal levels of measurement into interval and ratio levels of measurement.