Seniority Physicians' seniority was found to have a negative influence
with regard to questions for assessing opinions regarding potential
contributions of ASNP nurses to improving quality of care and improving
patient satisfaction. In other words, the more seniority a physician had,
the more pessimistic the physician would be with regard to potential
expectations from the change (see Table 3). Seniority was not found to
affect nurses opinions in this manner