Learning Objective #1: Understand the concept of work satisfaction

Learning Objective #2: Explore factors influencing nurses’ work satisfaction in community hospitals

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The purposes of this study were to examine work satisfaction of staff nurses; to analyze relationships between personal factors, work environment, and work satisfaction; and to determine predictors of work satisfaction of staff nurses in-patient departments community hospitals, central region. The subjects consisted of 303 staff nurses who were selected by multi-stage sampling. Study instruments were personal factor, work environment, and work satisfaction of staff nurses questionnaires . These questionnaires were tested for content validity and reliability. The alpha coefficient of work environment questionnaires, and work satisfaction questionnaires both were .90 . Frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression were used to analyze data.

Major findings were as follows : 1. The mean score of work satisfaction as perceived by staff nurses was 4.07 (ranking from 1 - 7) 2. The overall work environment, and by either dimension including relationship dimension, personal growth dimension, and system maintenance and change dimension were significantly related to work satisfaction of staff nurses (r = .732, .616, .644, and.595 respectively, p < .01) 3. The multiple regression analysis revealed that 56.0 percent of variance in the work satisfaction of staff nurses was predicted by personal growth dimension, relationship dimension and system maintenance and change dimension (R2 = .560, p < .01). The study equation of these analysis was as follow : Zx Work satisfaction = .376**Z Personal growth dimension + .279**ZRelationship dimension + .247**Z System maintenance and change dimension

Findings indicated that good relationship to collgue, personal growth from work, and balances of system maintenance and change should be important strategies to improve.