Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Entrepreneurship Among Nurses in a Tertiary Hospital in Benin City, Nigeria.

Abstract:

White-collar jobs are now scarce in Nigeria. In addition, the economic situation has become very unbearable for the citizens. Furthermore, healthcare workers are emigrating in large numbers, and one begins to ask if there can be a way out of the quagmire. Entrepreneurship has been seen as one way to mitigate the situation. There, it becomes imperative to examine the entrepreneurial knowledge, attitudes and intentions of nurses in a tertiary and a secondary hospital in Benin City Nigeria. The relationship among the variables and how well entrepreneurial knowledge and attitude predict entrepreneurial intentions were also studied. The population was composed of eight hundred and sixty-one nurses from which a sample size of 273 was obtained using Taro Yamane formula at 5% error margin. The instrument used was a questionnaire made up of four sections. The first section requested demographic information and the other three focused on entrepreneurial knowledge, attitude and intention. The items were adapted from studies conducted by Abun et al. (2018) and Zakaria and Nordin (2020). The response options for the last three sections of the questionnaire were strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. Three experts reviewed the questionnaire, and the corrected one was administered on thirty nurses in a secondary hospital not used for the study for purposes of reliability determination. The reliability obtained for entrepreneurial knowledge, attitude and intention sections using Cronbach alpha were .0735, .803 and .851 respectively. Data collected were analysed using means, Pearson product moment correlation and regression analysis. The results should be good entrepreneurial knowledge, attitude and intention. Entrepreneurial knowledge and attitude were found to predict entrepreneurial intention. It was recommended that nurses should be taught entrepreneurship to further enhance their knowledge and consequently attitude and intention.