COLLABORATION LEVELS OF NURSES FROM DIFFERENT GENERATIONS

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine and investigate the collaboration levels of nurses from different generations in the same work environment based on current data and reveal differences. The sample of this descriptive study between March-June 2021 included 69 nurses working at a hospital. The data were collected using a Personal Information Form developed by the researchers and the Nurse-Nurse Collaboration Scale. The SPSS 22 statistical package was used to analyze the data, and the analysis included descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, and Kruskal-Wallis test. It was determined that 64% of the nurses who participated in this study were from Generation Y, 26% were from Generation Z, and 10% were from Generation X. The median age of respectively the X, Y, Z generation is 46.32 and 22 years old. While most of the participants from Generations X and Y were married (85.7% and 72.7%, respectively), most of the participants from Generation Z were single (61.1%). All (100%) nurses from Generation X, 75.0% of those from Generation Y and 83.7% of those from Generation Z assessed their collaboration levels as adequate. The total Nurse-Nurse Collaboration Scale and subscale median scores of all nurses from Generations X, Y and Z were found to be higher than 2.5 (p>0.05). It was determined that the collaboration levels of the nurses from Generations X, Y and Z were moderate. The collaboration levels of the nurses from Generations Y and Z were close to each other, while these levels were different from those of the nurses from Generation X. The collaboration levels of the female nurses from Generation Z were found to be higher than those of the male nurses.