Abstract
A survey study among 288 Norwegian undergraduate nursing educators at 32 nursing colleges from 1996 showed that teachers experienced excessive workloads and that excessive workloads often correlated highly with frequent college reforms. In addition, our data indicated that nursing educators enjoy their work and wish to continue teaching. The purpose of this study was through an interview of 14 nursing educators in one small and two large nursing schools to enhance and deepen our knowledge of the expressive factors relevant to experienced satisfaction and excessive workload among Norwegian nursing educators. This made possible a comparison of data and methodological triangulation of our findings. Both the survey study from 1996 and the interview study from 1997 showed that less than half of the educators experienced excessive workload in their daily work situations. The interview showed that one important contributing factor is related to the fact that many teachers combine work with advanced education, and teachers receive insufficient feedback from colleagues and administrators on their job performance at the college.