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Professional Satisfaction of Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit Environment

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  • Anastasios Tzenalis
  • Maria Giouldouri
  • George Kipourgos
  • George Elesnitsalis

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Background: Job satisfaction of nurses is an issue that has focused intense attention in recent years, mainly due to the widespread reduction, worldwide, in the number of nursing personnel. Purpose to investigate the influence of the work environment of the intensive care unit on nurses and to identify the factors that play a decisive role in job satisfaction. Materials and Methods: Our study involved 100 intensive care unit nurses who completed a questionnaire focusing on nurses’ job satisfaction. Tests used are T-test, Mann-Whitney U (test of two independent samples), Anova, KruskalWallis to test distributions. The non-parametric tests analyzed with two independent variables T-test, Anova, Pearson, one-sample t-Test respectively. Results: Employees belonging to the age group of 40–49 are less satisfied with their work than employees from 30–39 years. Also, nurses with the most years of experience have statistically lower job satisfaction in terms of extrinsic job characteristics than groups with less work experience. Finally, nurses with more children are less satisfied with their work than those with fewer. Conclusion: Definitions of job satisfaction include a global affective approach with an approach to determine the overall level of job satisfaction while taking into account different individual and organizational factors that influence nurses’ job satisfaction. Contributions to Practice: The findings of this study can contribute to the improvement of working conditions and factors affecting the job satisfaction of intensive care unit nurses.

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  • Anastasios Tzenalis & Maria Giouldouri & George Kipourgos & George Elesnitsalis, 2023. "Professional Satisfaction of Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit Environment," European Journal of Clinical Medicine, European Open Science, vol. 4(5), pages 25-30, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:clinic:v:4:y:2023:i:5:id:12293
    DOI: 10.24018/clinicmed.2023.4.5.293
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