Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction among Nurses Working in Teaching Hospital, Chitwan, Nepal

Abstract

Background: Job satisfaction is a major factor in nurse retention and the de­livery of high quality care. Hence, aim of this study was to find out the factors affecting job satisfaction among nurses working in the teaching hospital, Chit­wan.
 Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional research design was used and a total 135 nurses who were working for at least 3 months in the Chitwan Medical Teaching Hospital were taken as study sample. Simple random sampling tech­nique was used to select the desired sample. Pre-tested structured self-admi­nistered questionniare with job satisfaction scale consisting eight domains was used to collect the data. Obtained data were entered into SPSS version 20.0 for window and analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (chi-square test).
 Results: The findings of the study revealed that more than half (57.85%) of the nurses were satisfied with their job. Nurses’ job satisfaction was higher on organization and administration policies (4.18±0.04) and least on salary and benefits (3.01±0.19) they were receiving from the institution. The significance influencing factors of job satisfaction were professional qualification (p=0.04), total work experience in nursing (p=0.004), working ward/unit (p=0.014), des­ignation (p=0.007), number of patient assigned in general ward (p=<0.001) and leadership style in the ward (p=<0.001).
 Conclusions: Considerable percentage of nurses are not satisfied with their job. Hence hospital management and professional associations need to ad­dress the identified factors to enhance the job satisfaction among nurses work­ing in a teaching hospital.

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“…The present study revealed that only half (50.4%) of the nurses are satisfied with their job which is similar with other studies conducted by Poudel 8 and Gyang 9 in which 57.85% and 64.8% were satisfied respectively. This might be due to common issues related to salaries and staff welfare they have faced.…”

“…Level of satisfaction was categorized based on mean score. 15 Ethical approval was taken from institutional review committee of Manipal College of Medical Science (Ref no-MEMG/ IRC/359/GA). Prior to data collection verbal permission was obtained from the participants.…”