“…Also of interest was the extent of disagreement about involvement in the rest of the decisions. Responses were spread across all levels of involvement for activities that have been suggested as ways to promote increased professional autonomy for nurses-patient advocacy (Wiseman, 1990); collaboration with physicians in planning care, ordering tests and determining discharge (Eubanks, 199 1 ;Schroeder, 1992); self-scheduling (Havens & Mills, 1992;McCoy, 1992); budget planning (Haven & Mills, 1992); peer review (Havens & Mills, 1992) and involvement in unit based research (Rizzuto, Lough, & Palange, 1990). It should be noted that the majority of staff nurses wanted little to no involvement in several of these decisions; i.e.…”