Association of factors affecting job satisfaction among critical care nurses at Khartoum governmental hospitals-Sudan

Abstract EN

Job satisfaction among nurses was significant issue in any health organization to provide a high quality of care and best patient’s outcomes promotes effective coronary and intensive care management as well as safe patient care.

the objective is to determine association between factors affecting job satisfaction and job satisfaction regarding nurses working in intensive care unit (ICU) and coronary care unit (ccu) in governmental hospitals in Khartoum state in six governmental hospitals in Khartoum state, includes Khartoum teaching hospital, elsheeb teaching hospital ,bahri teaching hospital, national center for medical and surgical of nervous system, ahmed gassum teaching hospital ,Omdurman teaching hospital and chinaness friend ships hospital.the ability to express concerns some factors were significantly associated with job satisfaction.

however there was astronge relationship between the job satisfaction, work environment, enough payment and scheduling.

descriptive cross-sectional total coverage hospital based study, included105 nurses working in ICU and CCU as participants.

a standardised structured self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data that consisted of two domains, the first domain contained the demographic data and second domain contained the factors affecting nursing job satisfaction, including information about the nurses’ work environment, enough payment and supervisor.

data was analysed by the computerized method statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20.

the results provided tentative support for distinguishing between extrinsic and intrinsic sources of job satisfaction.

one component explained intrinsic work factors (mainly the job itself factor, but also the promotion factors), while the other four components accounted for extrinsic work factors, namely, dissatisfaction with: working conditions, payment, and supervisor.

difference in nurse satisfaction was significant (p value 0.05).

that means enough payment affects nurse job satisfaction.

association found between nursing work under stress, payment, supervisor and promotion.

there was remarkable found to be demonstrated significantly related nurses job satisfaction and those factors, work under stress, payment and supervisor.