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- Title
Factors influencing job satisfaction among registered nurses: a questionnaire survey in Mashhad, Iran.
- Authors
Atefi, Narges; Lim Abdullah, Khatijah; Wong, Li Ping; Mazlom, Reza
- Abstract
Background Job satisfaction is a critical factor in health care. Strong empirical evidence supports a causal relationship between job satisfaction, patient safety and quality of care. Objective To determine the level of nurses’ job satisfaction and its associated factors. Method A stratified random sample of 421 registered nurses working at a large hospital in Mashhad, Iran was surveyed. Result The results showed that autonomy, task requirement and work interaction had scores higher than their respective median on the subscales. There were significant differences between demographic characteristics and the autonomy, task requirement, work interaction, salary, work condition, professional development, supportive nursing management, decision making, professional status subscales and mean total job satisfaction. In univariate analysis, young age, being female and being married were significantly associated with a higher level of job satisfaction. The adjusted R2 for this model was 0.14, indicating that the model explained 14% of the variability. The regression model was highly significant, F (4298) = 13.194, P < 0.001. Conclusions and implications for nursing management The authors emphasise that the human resources policies and incentives need to be re-visited. Efforts undertaken to improve working conditions, supportive nursing management, improved professional status, professional development and increased salaries are some of the ways for nurse managers to improve job satisfaction.
- Subjects
IRAN; AGE distribution; ANALYSIS of variance; AUTONOMY (Psychology); CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; CORPORATE culture; STATISTICAL correlation; DECISION making; JOB satisfaction; NURSES' attitudes; PROBABILITY theory; PROFESSIONAL employee training; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SEX distribution; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); WORK environment; EMPLOYEES' workload; OCCUPATIONAL roles; PEER relations; SOCIAL support; EDUCATIONAL attainment; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Journal of Nursing Management, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 4, p448
- ISSN
0966-0429
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jonm.12151