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Prestige: Key to Job Satisfaction for Community Health Nurses
Author(s) -
Riordan Jan
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1991.tb00744.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , autonomy , prestige , job attitude , psychology , nursing , sample (material) , community health , job performance , social psychology , medicine , public health , political science , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography , law
By examining and predicting dimensions of job satisfaction of community‐based nurses, this study sought to provide information for recruiting and retaining community nurses. Data were collected from a sample of 104 community health, school health, and home health nurses. Prestige had the highest positive correlation with and was the single significant predictor of job satisfaction. Three other subscales, autonomy, social interaction, and organizational requirements, correlated with job satisfaction as moderately positive. Weak positive relationships were found with years of work, years on the job, age, and years of education. Pay was not associated with job satisfaction for these nurses.