Kontakt 2012, 14(4):401-409 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.040

Factors affecting satisfaction of Czech nurses with workNursing

Silvie Haroková^1,*, Elena Gurková²

¹ Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Lékařská fakulta, Ústav ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence

² Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Jesseniova lekárska fakulta v Martine, Ústav ošetrovateľstva

Introduction: Within the framework of the Czech Republic, studies in the field of the satisfaction with the work were particularly aimed at the identification of priorities of the occupational environment of general nurses and degree of their saturation by the employer. In our study, we examined relationships between social and demographic factors and satisfaction of nurses with their work.
Targets: The target of the contribution was to find the relationship between selected social and demographic variables and particular fields of the satisfaction of Czech nurses with their work.
Sample group and methods: The research sample included 499 nurses from six hospitals in the Czech Republic. The satisfaction of nurses with their work was estimated by the use of the questionnaire McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale. The dependence between particular variables was established with the help of the Spearman correlation coefficient. Differences in the satisfaction of nurses with their work were determined by the Kruskal-Wallis test. In results exerting the statistical significance based on the Kruskal-Wallis test, Mann-Whitney non-parametric tests of multiple comparisons were subsequently performed.

Results and discussion: Positive correlations were found between the age, length of the total clinical practice and satisfaction of Czech nurses with the work. Statistically significant differences in particular areas of the satisfaction with work were found in terms of the education, family conditions, number of children and type of the working site.

Keywords: satisfaction with work; nurses; demographic factors

Received: April 12, 2012; Accepted: July 24, 2012; Prepublished online: December 21, 2012; Published: December 30, 2012  Show citation