Cent Eur J Nurs Midw 2015, 6(2):260-266 | DOI: 10.15452/CEJNM.2015.06.0013

Selected factors of Slovak nurses' job satisfaction

Mária Kožuchová1,*, Anna Vargová2
1 Nursing home care agency (ADOS-SRDCE s.r.o.), Jaklovce, Slovak Republic
2 Nursing home care agency (ADOS Krištal spol. s.r.o.), Rožňava, Slovak Republic

Aim: The objective of this contribution was to present nurses' job satisfaction in Slovak institutional facilities related to selected characteristics of nurses (e.g. length of professional experience, current job title, etc).

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Methods: The research sample was composed of 206 nurses working in institutional healthcare facilities in Slovakia between the ages of 23 to 63. Nurses' job satisfaction was surveyed using the standardized form of the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale. The research was realized in Slovak healthcare facilities between December 2014 to January 2015. The respondents replied on-line to a questionnaire that was published on the SKSaPA website. Significant interaction of two qualitative variables was evaluated using Mann-Whitney test with ZAdj statistics, Kruskal-Wallis with H test statistics and correlation analysis with Spearmann correlation coefficient r(S).

Results: The statistical processing found a statistically significant correlation between general satisfaction and total length of professional experience (p = 0.907) and also between nurses' general satisfaction and current job title (p = 0.091). We found significant correlations between current job title in a healthcare facility and the three sub-scales: satisfaction with scheduling (p = 0.030); satisfaction with professional opportunities (p = 0.026); and satisfaction with control and responsibility (p = 0.020). The overall satisfaction score was &xmacr; = 2.94. The highest mean was achieved in the sub-scale Satisfaction with co-workers (&xmacr; = 3.52) and the lowest mean in the sub-scale Satisfaction with control and responsibility (&xmacr; = 2.73).

Conclusion: The results of this research demonstrate the need to investigate nurses' job satisfaction with a focus on the identification of factors determining this multi-faceted phenomenon.

Keywords: nurses, job satisfaction, total length of professional experience, job title, institutional healthcare facilities

Received: March 31, 2015; Accepted: May 19, 2015; Published: September 30, 2015  Show citation

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Kožuchová M, Vargová A. Selected factors of Slovak nurses' job satisfaction. Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery. 2015;6(2):260-266. doi: 10.15452/CEJNM.2015.06.0013.
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