This study will look for a hospital which has a wide variation in terms of educational attainment of its nurses. The nursing population of this chosen hospital will then become the participants of this study. Only the currently-employed; full-time nurses are eligible for the survey.

IV. Data Collection and Analysis

This study will use secondary information. The researcher will request the educational attainment data of their employed nurses to the Human Resources Department. The data for patient-nurse ratio and patient outcome on the other hand, will be requested to the administrative authorities of the hospital.

After completing the data-gathering phase, the researcher will encode the answers and will analyze data using statistical software that will generate: (a) Pearson's r, which will determine the strength of association of these three variables; (b) linear regression, which will specify the nature of relationship among variables (Nachmias & Nachmias, 1996, p.421).

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