Study of job satisfaction among nurses in Assiut University Hospitals in 1991

ABSTRACT

Job satisfaction is an important issue nowadays for both, the performance, productivity at work and personal satisfaction from the job. Job satisfaction is a function of correspondence between the individual needs and job reinforces. In this study 220 nurses of Assiut University Hospitals filled in a questionnaire consisted of 2 groups of questions each. The first group was to know the satisfaction variable scores and the second group was to measure the importance of the variables for personal satisfaction. The results show a mean age of nurses 26.4 +/- 7.7 years. The range of experience is from one to 23 years and most of the nurses were married 138 [62.7%]. Positive relationship was found with most factors except the pay factor. Positive correlation was found with relation to coworkers, relation to supervisors, and doctor nurse relationship followed by job content and job security level. Job security factor was ranking number one in terms of both satisfaction and importance. Nurses generally didn't care of items like pay, work condition and environment and job content