Investigation of Job Satisfaction Levels of Nurses Working in a University Hospital and Some Variables Related Their Job Satisfaction

Purpose: Purpose of this study was to investigate job satisfaction levels of the nurses working at a university hospital and the some variables the related to their job satisfaction.

Method: This descriptive study was carried out in İnönü University Turgut Özal Medical Center in February, 2008. The sample of the study included in 266 nurses. The data were collected using a questionnaire prepared by the investigator and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire short form.

Results: General job satisfaction mean score of nurses was 3.30±0.71, reflecting moderate level satisfaction. Internal satisfaction mean score (3.52±0.75) of nurses was higher than their external mean score (2.98±0.86). It was found that the general job satisfaction mean scores of the married nurses (3.39±0.69), nurses who worked in the internal clinics (3.55±0.54), nurses who had responsible of the unite (3.59±0.62), nurses who worked in continuous day time shift (3.52±0.58), nurses who participated the scientific activities (3.40±0.66) were significantly higher than other nurses (P<0.05).

Conclusion: General and internal job satisfaction of nurses was moderate level, and their external job satisfaction was low level. Results of this study showed that job satisfaction of nurses was related to variables such as marital status, the unit of work, position at work, time of work, and participate to scientific activities.