Investigation of job satisfaction and life satisfaction of nurses working in emergency services

32^nd Euro Nursing and Medicare Summit

October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France

Suheyla Yarali, Seda Karaman and Gulcan B Turan

Ataturk University, Turkey

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Objective: The study was conducted to investigate the job satisfaction and life satisfaction of nurses working in emergency services. Materials & Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in emergency services of two hospitals in Turkey. For data collection in the study, "Introductory Information Form" was used to identify the socio-demographic characteristics of nurses, the "Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS)" was used to evaluate their job satisfaction, and the "Life Satisfaction Scale" was used to evaluate the life satisfaction levels. Data analysis was performed with the SPSS 18.00 statistics package program. Findings: In the study, it was determined that 65% of the nurses was female, 44% was in the 26-35 age group, 50% was married, 60% was adult emergency nurses, 67% was working for 0-5 years, and 77% was working in emergency service for 0-5 years. In this study, the mean total score of the nurses from the job satisfaction scale was found to be 125.02�������±20.14. And, their mean score in the life satisfaction scale was 4.07�������±1.52. Significant positive relationship was found to be between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Conclusion: It was found that the levels of job satisfaction and life satisfaction of nurses working in emergency service were moderate. There was a significant positive correlation between job satisfaction and life satisfaction, with an increase in life satisfaction as the job satisfaction increases.

Biography :

Süheyla YaralÃ?± is working in the field of public health nursing, women's health, obesity, health promotion model, and health belief model. She is currently working on Doctoral thesis in the Public Health Nursing in Ataturk University in Turkey.