Job satisfaction: an issue among nurses of national medical college and teaching hospital birgunj

Introduction: Nurses in hospitals are the key to any health care delivery system. An efficient patient care comes not merely from modern equipment and drugs, but from a group of well-motivated medical, paramedical and skilled personnel. “A Happy Employee is a Productive Employee” who must be satisfied with his/her job. Job satisfaction in nurse should be of great concern to any health organization. Nurses hold the majority of positions in most health care settings and replacement of nursing personnel is costly and time consuming. Nurses’ job satisfaction is an important issue because of its impact on the quality of nursing job. The widespread nursing shortage and nurses’ high turnover has become a global issue which has been a great concern to both the developed and developing countries. Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study design was carried out among 50 nursing staff of national medical college and teaching hospital by using pretested structured questionnaire. The data obtained were analyzed by using SPSS and MS Excel. Results: This study revealed that 74% of nursing staff were satisfied with their job and while area wise analysis the factors that lead to nursing staff satisfaction were: area of interpersonal relationship, area of physical facilities, area of working conditions, financial incentives and non financial incentives respectively. Hence the nursing staffs were satisfied with most of the areas except organizational function, work and training. Conclusion: Despite of satisfaction, there is further need of training and other motivational component to increase their level of job satisfaction.