Influence of nursing work environment on nurse job satisfaction from 25 hospitals in China / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To describe job satisfaction of paediatric intensive care units in China, and analyze the relationship of nursing work environment between job satisfaction. Methods From November 2017 to May 2018, a total of 1414 nurses of paediatric intensive care units from 25 hospitals of 16 provinces and cities nationwide in China were selected using convenient sampling, and surveyed by Nurses Job Satisfaction Scale and Practice Environment Scale. Descriptive statistics and Hierarchical multiple regression analysis were performed by SPSS 20.0. Results The average score of nurse job satisfaction of paediatric nurses was 3.29 ± 0.49, which was in the middle level in China. Hierarchical regression results showed that the area where the hospital was located, monthly income could affect the nurse job satisfaction, and nursing work environment played an important role for nurses job satisfaction, the model explained 73.1％ amount of variance (R2=0.731, P<0.01). Conclusions The nursing work environment is the important factor influencing the nurses job satisfaction of paediatric intensive care unit, how to balance the domestic resources and reduce the regional differences, we work together to create a healthy environment in paediatric intensive care unit, further improving the nurses job satisfaction will be the important issues in the future.