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Staff nurses' work satisfaction in psychogeriatric wards
Author(s) -
Gilloran Alan,
McKinley Andrew,
McGlew Tom,
McKee Kevin,
Robertson Alex
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1994.20060997.x
Subject(s) - nursing , job satisfaction , work (physics) , nursing staff , medicine , quality (philosophy) , psychology , family medicine , social psychology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , engineering
This paper begins by reviewing the small number of studies of staff nurses’ work satisfaction Subsequently, an examination is made of the differences in work satisfaction between staff nurses and other grades of nursing staff in psychogeriatric wards in National Health Service hospitals in Scotland These data are part of a larger study into work satisfaction and the quality of care in these settings Significant differences in satisfaction at work are identified between the staff nurse group and the other grades taken as a whole Analysis of the components of job satisfaction suggests that these differences arise from first, the experience of the work itself, second, the quality of the supervision which takes place, and third, the assessment of hospital policies, such as the transfer of staff to other wards