Abstract

Objective To explore the present situation of perceived organizational support （ POS） and its influencing factors among nurses from all-level general hospitals in Tai ’ an city, in order to provide hospital administrators with a basis for the implementation of scientific management among nurses .Methods A total of 1 000 nurses from all-level general hospitals in Tai ’ an city were investigated with POS scale .The data collected was analyzed with the SPSS 17 .0 software program , and descriptive analysis method was used to analyze POS , which was expressed as the mean ±177;standard deviation （ x-±177;s） .Analysis of variance was applied to compare the POS scores among nurses with different demographic information , and stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between the demographic information and POS .P-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant .Results A total of 1 000 questionnaires were handed out and 982 effective questionnaires were recovered ,with the rate of 98.2%.The mean score of POS was 3.40 by the descriptive analysis.Significant differences were found in the POS scores among nurses from hospitals with different levels , and with different work years, different titles, and different educational levels by the F analysis （F=151.451, 12.132, 195.223,14.811, respectively;P ＜0.01）.Stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that two dimensions of POS , namely affective support and instrumental support , were related to the hospital levels , work years, titles and education levels （P＜0.05）.Conclusions Hospital level has a significant influence on the POS of nurses.Hospital administrators should pay attention to the affective support of nurses , which is beneficial to the nurse team stability and promote the hospital to achieve the organization goals . Key words: General hospital; Hospital level; Survey

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