Main factors influencing nurse job satisfaction: a follow-up study

• Autor(a) principal: Xu, Wanlu
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/11584
• topic: Nursing in China; Nurse job satisfaction; Intrinsic factors; Extrinsic factors; Enfermagem na China; Satisfação no trabalho de enfermeiros; Fatores intrínsecos; Fatores extrínsecos

Healthcare industry has been facing a considerable growth in China, in recent years. People pay much attention to healthcare and hospital service quality. Nursing is an important part of healthcare. This study is a follow-up to the dissertation concerning the main factors influencing nurse job satisfaction. As the job satisfaction remains low among the nurses in China, turnover among the nurses is rising. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the nurse job satisfaction level, and understand which factors influence nurse job satisfaction, in order to know how to increase motivation and improve the quality of health care service. A questionnaire was developed to collect data from China. The number of respondents was 238. The results show that neither age nor education has an impact on nurse job satisfaction. At the same time, the result of the attitude based on age and education as derived from the questionnaire differed from the result obtained in 2006 (Wang et al., 2006). In 2006 the main factors influencing nurse job satisfaction were fairness, salary and responsibility, while, in 2014 the main factors influencing nurse job satisfaction were salary, workload, getting recognition from others (fulfillment), equipment as an important element in their job, and leadership.