By this time, a few of previous studies of factors related to separation from their jobs and job satisfaction only have dealt with the separation rate, the cause of separation and related factors that induce job satisfaction and incentive factors, the actualities of morale some suggestions for reduction of the separation rate.
This study is attempted to determine factors that have effect on job satisfaction of national hospital nurses, and to proide information and materials for the development of the administration of nursing through the appreciation of factors influencing on job satisfaction between isolated ward nurses and general ward nurses working at national hospitals.
185 nurses of national hospitals responsed th this study, and were divided into two groups.
Group 1 : 57 nurses working at isolated wards for tuberculosis patients and Group 2 : 128 nurses at general wards.
Relevant data were collected from August, 5. 1992 through August 20, 1992.
The questionnaire consisted of 8 genalized items and 4 items concerning job satisfaction.
The collected data were processed with SPSS, and the relationship among vaviables was analyzed by means of X²-test, Pearson Correlation, Multiple Regression.
The results of this study are as follows :
1. There is no significant difference between two groups in terms of generalized items. Age distributions show 44.3% under the category of less than 34, and 55.7% under the category more than 35, 19.3% was single and 74.6% was married respectively.
2. 79.4% of the nurses have the desire to have in-service education under the satisfactory physical environments such as welfare system, accommodating structures and facilities, instruments or management systems of the hospital, but under the category of unsatisfactory circumstances, 60.3% have the intention of having in- service education.
The concern in terms of in-service education shows statistically significant difference between two groups (X²=8.85, p<0.05).
This result accepts the hypothesis that good physical environments could intensify interests in in-service education.
3. The extent of satisfaction related to psychological environments is heightend according to good physical environments.
In result, the hypothesis that the extent of satisfaction in terms of physical environments could raise satisfaction about psychological environment is accepted.
4. In the light of the extent of satisfaction about physical environments, 33.3% of isolated ward nurses are satisfied with physical environments, but only 11.7% of general ward nurses are satisfied. (X²=10.88, p<0.01).
This result shows that the satisfaction degree about physical environments of isolated ward nurses was higher than that of general ward nurses in spite of high physical and psychological risks due to exposure to infection.
Consequently, the hypothesis was rejected that the satisfaction degree about physical environments would be lower in isolated ward nurses than in general ward nurses.
5. The fact that 87.7% of isolated ward nurses took interest in in-service education and 53.1% of general ward nurses took interest in in-service education demonstrates that isolated ward nurses have more interest in in-service education than general ward nurses.
The result shows that the hypothesis is accepted that isolated ward nurses would have more interests in in-service education than general ward nurses.
6. In the extent of satisfaction about physical environments such as morale human relationship, promotion, there is no significant difference between two groups in terms of statistics.
The hypothesis is rejected that satisfaction about psychologic environments would be higher in isolated ward nurses than in general ward nurses.
In conclusion, factors influencing on job satisfaction are considered to have effect on one another, and also interdisciplinary amelioration of factors accompanied with systematic inter-cooperative investigation is necessary.
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