Nursing Magazine reported results of a survey of more than 1
Nursing Magazine reported results of a survey of more than 1800 nurses across the country concerning job satisfaction and retention. Nurses from magnet hospitals (hospitals that successfully attract and retain nurses) describe the staffing situation in their units, in the first table. A survey of 490 nurses from non-magnet hospitals gave the responses to the staffing situation in the second table. Do the data indicate that the nurses from the nonmagnet hospitals have a different distribution of opinions? Use leve of significance = .05.
(a) Find the test statistic. (Give your answer correct to two decimal places.)
| Staffing Situation | Percent |
| 1. Desperately short of help-patient care has suffered | 12.7 |
| 2. Short, but patient care hasn\'t suffered | 33 |
| 3. Adequate | 31.8 |
| 4. More than adequate | 12.4 |
| 5. Excellent | 10.1 |
Solution
observed expected O - E (O - E)