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Job satisfaction of staff registered nurses in primary and team nursing delivery systems
Author(s) -
Carlsen Ruth H.,
Malley James D.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770040207
Subject(s) - respondent , nursing , job satisfaction , test (biology) , medicine , psychology , social psychology , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Abstract Job satisfaction for nurses in team and primary nursing delivery systems as measured by a human needs questionnaire was studied. Staff‐level registered nurses from 27 units in a large research hospital completed a 22‐item questionnaire. Each item measured present and desired job satisfaction and the importance of the item to the respondent. Data from 115 primary‐system nurses and 65 team‐system nurses were analyzed by Kruskal‐Wallis tests of significance and chi‐square contingency tables. Overall, primary‐system nurses reported greater job satisfaction than team‐system nurses. The primary system offered more opportunity for accountability and fulfilling higher level needs. Neither system provided sufficient opportunities for self‐fulfillment, decision‐making, or independent judgment. The identified weakness of the primary system was the unmet need for supervision. Of all the nurses in this study, 75% were dissatisfied with the prestige accorded to them.