PURPOSE The main purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among Jordanian occupational therapists. METHODS Ours was an explorative qualitative study involving the use of structured open-ended written questions. Participants were asked to answer in narrative their perception about the factors behind their job satisfaction and dissatisfaction...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the influence of gender and age on the quality of the professional lives of health care professionals at a university hospital. METHOD a total of 546 professionals completed a general questionnaire that measured sociodemographic variables and evaluated job satisfaction using a scale adopted from the NTP 394 Job Satisfaction scale and translated into Spanish. RESULTS ove...

BACKGROUND There is a growing interest in the psychosocial work environment of health care staff since they are at high risk for burnout, role conflict and job dissatisfaction. Burnout, as a type of prolonged response to chronic job-related stressors, has a special significance in health care where staff experience both psychological-emotional and physical stress. Burnout and the other negative...

BACKGROUND In recent decades, the increasing crowdedness of the emergency departments has posed various problems for patients and healthcare systems worldwide. These problems include prolonged hospital stay, patient dissatisfaction and nurse burnout or job dissatisfaction. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of emergency department (ED) nurses' job specialization on...

conclusions the job specialization intervention can improve nurses’ satisfaction and relieve the crowdedness of the eds. results there was a significant difference between the two groups of patients concerning the length of their stay in the ed (p < 0.001). moreover, compared with the pretest readings, nurses had greater job satisfaction after the study (p < 0.001). patients and methods this be...

Nurses’ job satisfaction is a topic of wide interest, because it is an important determinant of their performance and the delivery of health care (1, 2). The job satisfaction has been conceptualised of intrinsic factors including personality, personal achievement, sense of accomplishment, prestige and extrinsic factors likewise working conditions, workload, relationships with colleagues, remune...

OBJECTIVES To describe indicators of job dissatisfaction among amputee employees and to compare job satisfaction and health experience of working amputee employees with that of control subjects. DESIGN A cross-sectional study, mailed questionnaire. SETTING Patients were recruited by the orthopedic workshops of the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS One hundred forty-four patients who had an acquir...

CONTEXT The worsening hospital nurse shortage and recent California legislation mandating minimum hospital patient-to-nurse ratios demand an understanding of how nurse staffing levels affect patient outcomes and nurse retention in hospital practice. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between the patient-to-nurse ratio and patient mortality, failure-to-rescue (deaths following complication...

* Correspondence should be addressed to José Manuel Otero López, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, España. E-mail: [email protected] study was possible thanks to a grant given to the project “Estrés laboral y Burnout en los Profesionales de Enseñanza Secundaria” (reference PGIDT02CS024101PR) financed by the ...