종합병원 간호⋅간병통합서비스병동 간호사와 일반병동 간호사의 직무만족 관련 요인

Abstract

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze and compare job satisfaction and its related factors of nursing care integrated service and general unit nurses. Methods: The participants were 345 nurses from 8 general hospitals working in the Kyungsang area. Data were collected from August through September 2018, by a structured self-administered questionnaire measuring general characteristics, nursing practice environment, emotional labor, nursing professionalism, and job satisfaction. The data were analyzed with IBM SPSS Statistics 25 program. Results: The participants were 170 nurses working in the nursing care integrated service unit and 175 nurses working in the general unit. The factors associated with job satisfaction in integrated service unit nurses were total years of clinical experience (β = -.11, p = .047), nursing practice environment (β = .52, p < .001), and nursing professionalism (β = .22, p = .009), which explained 51.0% of the variance. The factors of job satisfaction in general unit nurses were nursing practice environment (β = .55, p < .001) and emotional modulation efforts (β = .18, p = .006), explaining 51.0% of the variance. Conclusion: In order to increase the job satisfaction of nurses, a good work environment should be created through the efforts of associated units.