Abstract
Background: The role of a nurse educator is a vital component in the management process of teaching and learning development of students. Ensuring excellent wellbeing for nurse educators may lead to increased job satisfaction and work performance. Objective: The objective of this study was to develop a survey tool that measures the wellbeing of Filipino nurse educators working in four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Methods: Three-phase sequential approach was obtained. The investigation started with a qualitative investigation of 20 Filipino nurse educators based from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain followed by a development of survey tool measuring the Filipino nurse educator’s wellbeing. The survey tool was distributed among 112 participants in Saudi Arabia. Data were analyzed and interpreted by means of a Colaizzi method for qualitative and descriptive statistics using SPSS for quantitative measures. Results: All the themes emerged from the qualitative phase were discussed from the gathered review of literature and studies. Themes, contextual categories, and significant statements were used as survey constructs measuring the wellbeing of the participants. Moreover, a valid and reliable survey tool called ‘Filipino Nurse Educator’s Wellbeing Survey’ (FNEWS) was developed and surveyed among the Filipino nurse educators in Saudi Arabia, revealing an ‘acceptable’ level of wellbeing. Conclusion: Knowing the level of wellbeing of nurse educators will be an effective way to provide the competency needed to address burnout, low job satisfaction, and compassion fatigue, thereby increasing the likelihood of safeguarding the welfare of the nurse educators.
Highlights
Nursing education in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, a part of the Middle East, is quickly growing when it comes to the number of students desiring to become a nurse [1]
The study focused and answered the following research questions: (1) How did Filipino nurse educators fulfill their wellbeing in the GCC region; (2) What self-developed tool can be formulated based on the qualitative investigation; and (3) What was the level of wellbeing of the Filipino nurse educators working in Saudi Arabia
Creswell [11] characterized this type of design with two phases, which was initiated by a qualitative data gathering and analysis followed by a quantitative process with the determination to generalize the level of wellbeing of Filipino nurse educators in a specific GCC country
Summary
Nursing education in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, a part of the Middle East, is quickly growing when it comes to the number of students desiring to become a nurse [1]. Various literature stated that wellbeing is believed to embrace human satisfaction in terms of physiological and health, employment stability, education, financial capacity, socio-cultural and religious practices, customs and traditions, family and significant others, and the environment [6 - 8]. This is why Naci and Ioannidis [9] came up with the idea that ‘wellbeing’ was an interconnecting dimension of mental, physical, and social aspects of human beings. Ensuring excellent wellbeing for nurse educators may lead to increased job satisfaction and work performance
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