Abstract
Background: Nurses are a main group of health service providers, but they have to face physical and psychological problems such as permanent confrontation with the patient, being exposed to health hazards. Nurses need to be motivated to accomplish their tasks, provide quality care. Motivation at work was found to be closely linked with job satisfaction and psychological well-being. Aim: the aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between psychological wellbeing and work motivation among staff nurses in Governmental Hospitals in Port Said. Subject and Methods: The current study utilized a descriptive correlational design. The study population included all staff nurses with total number 274 at inpatient units working in four hospitals namely (Port Said general hospital, Elnasr hospital, Elzohor Central hospital and Port Fouad general hospital), used two tools: Ryff Psychological Wellbeing Scale (Ryff Scale), Work Preference Inventory scale, a personal and job characteristics questionnaire sheet was added. Results: The high percentage of nurses participate in this study were females 94.2%, less than three quarter of studied staff nurses had high level of the total psychological well-being (71.5%), the majority of the studied staff nurses had highly total scores of work motivation (77.4%).Conclusions: there is a significant correlation between psychological wellbeing and work motivation among staff nurses in governmental hospitals at Port Said. Recommendations: Nurses should improve their psychological wellbeing state. In addition, nurses' managers should motivate nurses through increase incentives, appreciate and acknowledge all nurses working in hospitals.
Highlights
IntroductionNurses are a main group of health service providers, but they have to face physical and psychological problems such as being exposed to health hazards, dealing with critically ill patients, the lack of adequate equipment (Huppert, 2009).Nurses who work in such environment must be encouraged to provide patients with excellent nursing care (Disch, 2002; Aiken, Sermeus, Van den Heede, Sloane, Busse, et al, 2012).Maintaining a highest possible level of well-being for all healthcare providers is one of the primary goals of the World Health Organization (World Health Organization, 2012).While nurses are the cornerstone in providing a high level of quality of patient care; they require attaining a high level of physical and psychological wellbeing for themselves in the first place and for the patients (Nemcek & James, 2007).Psychological wellbeing focuses on the positive and negative emotions
The results revealed that most of studied staff nurses are worked in Port-said general hospital (40.1%) compared to
According to the result of the current study, most of nurses have highly autonomy and environmental mastery this may be due to nurses can control the situation and face problems and deal with it, this is supported by Madhuchandra, &Srimathi (2016), who studied psychological well-being among doctors and nurses in India and found that nurses have high autonomy and environmental mastery compares to doctors
Summary
Nurses are a main group of health service providers, but they have to face physical and psychological problems such as being exposed to health hazards, dealing with critically ill patients, the lack of adequate equipment (Huppert, 2009).Nurses who work in such environment must be encouraged to provide patients with excellent nursing care (Disch, 2002; Aiken, Sermeus, Van den Heede, Sloane, Busse, et al, 2012).Maintaining a highest possible level of well-being for all healthcare providers is one of the primary goals of the World Health Organization (World Health Organization, 2012).While nurses are the cornerstone in providing a high level of quality of patient care; they require attaining a high level of physical and psychological wellbeing for themselves in the first place and for the patients (Nemcek & James, 2007).Psychological wellbeing focuses on the positive and negative emotions. Nurses are a main group of health service providers, but they have to face physical and psychological problems such as being exposed to health hazards, dealing with critically ill patients, the lack of adequate equipment (Huppert, 2009).Nurses who work in such environment must be encouraged to provide patients with excellent nursing care (Disch, 2002; Aiken, Sermeus, Van den Heede, Sloane, Busse, et al, 2012). Psychological wellbeing, is affected when negative emotions are extreme or extensive and when they interfere with the employees’ ability to do their daily work activities effectively (Huppert, 2009). Aim: the aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between psychological wellbeing and work motivation among staff nurses in Governmental Hospitals in Port Said. The study population included all staff nurses with total number 274 at inpatient units working in four hospitals namely (Port Said general hospital, Elnasr hospital, Elzohor Central hospital and Port Fouad general hospital), used two tools: Ryff Psychological Wellbeing Scale (Ryff Scale), Work
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