Predictive Factors Impacting Intent-to-Stay Teaching for Associate Degree Adjunct Clinical Nurse Faculty

The purpose of this quantitative correlational research study was to understand the predictive factors of intent-to-stay teaching for associate degree adjunct clinical nurse faculty. An examination of the relationship between demographic variables and job satisfaction factors with intent-to-stay teaching was explored. Adjunct clinical nurse faculty members employed during 2015 in associate degree nursing programs completed an anonymous on-line survey. Participants were surveyed utilizing the Job Satisfaction Survey, the Nurse Educators' Intent to Stay in Academe Scale, and demographic questionnaire via SurveyMonkey Web site. Frederick Herzberg's 2-factor motivator-hygiene theory (1959) was utilized as a foundation to explore the factors that impact intent-to-stay teaching. Regression analysis revealed statistically significant relationships between job satisfaction, motivator, and hygiene factors with intent-to-stay score. In addition, faculty who revealed full-time employment outside of the adjunct position were found to have lower intent-to-stay scores compared with those working part time or not at all. Enhancement of adjunct clinical faculty's' job satisfaction, motivator, and hygiene factors is necessary to retain this qualified group of educators. Improvement of intent to stay in the role can improve teaching and reduce costs at similar institutions of higher learning.