Evaluation of job satisfaction of nurses is very important for solving the problems which occur in hospital duty and to set up policies of job procedures. This study was undertaken to investigate the responses and the priorities in job satisfaction.
This data were collected through questionnaires from 177 nurses working at two hospitals in Kwangju City during the period of December 12~24,1980. The questionnaires developed by the researcher included 46 questions concerned vvith job satisfaction; i. e. professional status, interaction, task requirements, administration, doctor-nurse relationships, Pay, and personal autonomy. The results obtained can be summarized as follows: 1) The response of job satisfaction occording to hospital duty was most positive 63.9% in Hospital A and 53.0% in hospital B for personal autonomy and most negative 26.2% in hospital A and 25.4% in hospital B for administration. 2) The response of job satisfaction. according to educational level was most positive 64.6% for graduates from junior colleges and 61.5% for graduates from four-year colleges for autonomy and most negative junior college 26.1%, four-vear college 24.8% for administration in hospital A. In hospital B, it was most positive 51.8% & 54.6% for interaction and most negative for doctor-unrse relationship among graduates from junior college 24. 4% and for administration among graduates from fouryear colleges 25.9% 3) The response of priority according to each item showed that personal autonomy is considered the most important and administration the least important in bofh hospitals.
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