Need for better job satisfaction of nurses

Abstract

It is the basic objective of every human being to be happy. Every person wants to be happy both at home and at his workplace. Nurses are no exceptions to this rule. Doctors and Nurses are to health care services as are the two eyes to human beings. As a matter of fact, the nurses interact more with the patients in a hospital than the doctors. A satisfied worker is motivated to put in maximum effort into any job he or she does. Likewise, only when the nurses are satisfied with their job, they will give the maximum output. In other words, for the success of healthcare services the job satisfaction of the nurses is very crucial. Hence this study. This study on job satisfaction of nurses is confined to the private hospital nurses in Coimbatore to describe the concepts and factors affecting job satisfaction; to examine the level of job satisfaction of nurses working in various private hospitals in Coimbatore; to analyze the various factors influencing job satisfaction of the nurses and to offer suggestions for improving the level of job satisfaction of nurses constituted the objectives of this study. There are 130 private hospitals in Coimbatore, more than 1000 nurses are working in these hospitals and out them 100 nurses were selected for this study using random sampling method. The study has revealed that married nurses are having better job satisfaction than those who are unmarried. Another significant finding is that nurses hailing from urban areas are more satisfied in their jobs than those come from rural areas. Similarly, higher the educational level higher is the level of Job satisfaction. Increasing the salary and other perks of the nurses and providing them with housing facilities are some of the suggestions made to increase the level of the job satisfaction of the nurses.

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