Impact of Emergency Clinical Work Environment on Nurses’ Satisfaction and Intension to Leave

Abstract

Background: Health care environment is a scene where people fulfill certain responsibilities and their satisfaction, communication, collaboration, leadership style, and intention to leave affected positively or negatively. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the work environment and detect its effect on nurses' job satisfaction and their intension to leave: design: a Descriptive correlational design was applied. Sample& setting: a convenient sample of staff nurses include (n=100 staff nurse) who deliver direct nursing care in a selected emergency university hospital. Tools: To achieve the aim of the current study three adapted questionnaires were used to collect the pertinent data. Results: The main discoveries of this study exhibited that the majority of the study sample agrees that their working environment positively structured to empower them. Also, the study revealed that 80% of the studied sample planned to be with their current employment one year and not intended to leave the hospital. Conclusion: Based on this outcomes, the study clinched that, there was a significant relationship between work environment and employee satisfaction while there was no a significant relationship between work environment and their intention to leave. Recommendations: use a larger sample of hospitals including teaching and private sectors with different accreditation statuses to provide representative workforce. Finally make your staff feel valued is one of the leading motives that any employee complain when they left their positions.