The object of this study was to investigate work stress and job satisfaction of nurses working in emergency room and in admission ward.
The subjects were 121 staff nurses working in emergency room and 127 staff nurses working in admission ward excluding head nurses of six university hospital and five general hospital in Taegu city and Kyungpook province.
The date were collected from July 10, 2001 to July 25, 2001 using structured questionnaires and analyzed with the SPSS PC+ program for mean, standard deviation, frequency and per centage, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient.
The results of this study were as follows:
In work stress, the nurse who work in emergency room had statistically significant higher work stress than the nurse who work in admission ward.
In job satisfaction, there was no significant differences between in emergency room and in admission ward.
According to the general characteristics, work stress on the nurses working in emergency room showed statistically significant differences in age, clinical career, religion but the nurses working in admission ward did not show statistically significant differences.
Job satisfaction of the nurses working in emergency room did not show statistically significant differences according to the general characteristics but the nurses working in admission ward showed statistically significant differences in marital status.
The analysis of the relation between the work stress and the job satisfaction showed significant negative correlation in emergency room (r=-.215), but there was not significant correlation in admission ward.
In conclusion, this study suggests that the more stresses are placed on the nurses in emergency room than those in admission ward and the nurses in emergency room have less satisfaction on their job. To decrease the stresses the nurses working in emergency room have, many efforts are required on both individual and systematic sides, and the strategy to increase job satisfaction should be developed.
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