Abstract
Practicing as a nurse may be a factor influencing the overall level of satisfaction with life. The aim of the study was to assess the level of satisfaction with nurses’ lives in relation to the place of employment. The research was conducted among nurses working in hospitals, primary health care, and outpatient specialist care. The study was carried out with the use of the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) scale. Statistical analysis included a quantitative and qualitative approach to life satisfaction of the nurses surveyed. The impact of independent variables, measured on nominal (qualitative) scales on the results of the SWLS scale in quantitative terms, was assessed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Pairwise comparisons were assessed with the assumption of equality of variance with the Tukey honestly significant difference test. The level of satisfaction with life of the surveyed nurses was average. The place where nurses worked significantly influenced the level of life satisfaction. Nurses working in a hospital had a high level of satisfaction with life more so than nurses working in primary care or outpatient specialist care. The workplace is a factor that significantly differentiates the level of life satisfaction of the surveyed nurses.
Highlights
Most people spend an average one third of adult life at work [1], professional activity, occupation, and working conditions may influence the general level of satisfaction with life
The following criteria for the selection of respondents were adopted: Inclusion criteria—professionally active nurses working in H, primary health care (PHC), and outpatient specialist care (OSC), with at least three years of work experience, willing to participate in the survey; exclusion criteria—nurses with lower work experience, working in medical facilities other than those indicated above, nurses who did not consent to participate in the study, and incomplete questionnaires
The Satisfaction with life (SWL) level is influenced by the nature of work, as it turns out that where nurses have direct contact with the patient, the SWL level is lower [22]; in contrast, the results of our research indicate that nurses struggling in direct contact with the patient show a higher level of satisfaction with life
Summary
Most people spend an average one third of adult life at work [1], professional activity, occupation, and working conditions may influence the general level of satisfaction with life. This applies to nurses—the most numerous professional group amongst medical personnel [2]. Many researchers’ results indicate that the factors determining the sense of life satisfaction among nurses are most often age, marital status, length of service, specificity of work, remuneration, emotional state, social support [13,14,15,16,17,18,19]
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