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Thursday, July 22, 2004
Nurses' Work Satisfaction in Community Hospitals
Pattamaporn Sanpaornchaipong, MS, RN, Chaibadarn Hospital, Chaibadarn, Lopburi, Thailand, Branom Rodcumdee, PhD, RN, Faculty of Nursing Chulalongkorn University, Payathai, Pathumwan, Thailand, and Areewan Oumtanee, RN, PhD, School of Nursing, Chulalongkorn University, Pratumwan, Bangkok, Thailand.
| Learning Objective #1: Understand the concept of work satisfaction |
| Learning Objective #2: Learn factors influencing nurses' work satisfaction in community hospitals |
The purposes of this descriptive study were to examine the relationships between personal factors, work environment, work satisfaction; and determine predictors of work satisfaction of staff nurses in-patient departments, community hospitals, central region, Thailand. Using Stamps' and Piedmond's work environment, and Moos's work satisfaction as a conceptual framework were examined 315 nurses working in community hospitals, central region randomly selected. Thirty hundreds and three useable responses were received (96% response rate). The analysis contributes to the overall of work environment and subscales including relationship dimension, personal growth dimension, and system maintenance and change dimension demonstrating positively significant relationships to nurses' work satisfaction (r = .732, .616. .644, and .595 respectively, p <.01). Individual nurses characteristics (age, length of work and education) were not found to be associated with work satisfaction. Strong predictors of work satisfaction were personal growth, relationship, and system maintenance and change respectively, which was accounted for 56% of the variance. The study demonstrated that good relationship to colleague, personal growth from work, and balances of system maintenance and change should be important strategies to improve nurses' work satisfaction.
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