Correlation of new nurses' job satisfaction and perceived organizational support in Oncology Department

Abstract

Objective To explore the correlation of new nurses' job satisfaction with their perceived organizational support in Oncology Department.Methods 125 new nurses in Oncology Department were investigated with the Survey of Perceived Organizational Support (SPOS) and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ).Results Perceived organizational support fell into three dimensions:working support,professional identification and caring about the well-being,and their score was (45.32 ± 9.45 ),(27.43 ±6.86) and (27.55 ± 8.31 ),respectively.Job satisfaction could be classified into internal satisfaction,external satisfaction and general satisfaction,and their score was ( 46.28 ± 6.48 ),( 26.38 ± 7.49 ),( 67.38 ±10.54),respectively.Nurses with different perceived organizational supports had different job satisfactions,and each dimension of perceived organization support was positively correlated with each dimension of job satisfaction (P ＜ 0.05 ).Conclusions There are significant positive correlation between job satisfaction and perceived organizational support of new nurses in Oncology Department,and perceived organizational support plays a certain role in predicting job satisfaction. Key words: Oncology Department, Hospital; Nurse; Perceived organizational support; Job satisfaction