Satisfação profissional dos enfermeiros

Abstract

In the troubled times we are living concerning professional matters, job satisfaction is undoubtedly a highly topical subject. In this context arises the need to identify the job satisfaction of the Nurses regarding five different dimensions in study: salary, superiors, coworkers, promotion and nature of work, as well as, to identify the locus of their own personal characteristics; in other words, how can an individual feel that he has control on what happens to himself. We also have made a socio-demographic and professional characterization of the sample, which was focused on a hospital of the Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental E.P.E., based on a questionnaire given to 249 nurses of that institution. A descriptive and correlational methodology was used after defining the general goal: to know the level of job satisfaction of the Nurses. As specific goals: to know the socio-demographic and professional characteristics of the nurses involved in the study; identify, concerning the five dimensions of the work, which one causes higher job satisfaction / dissatisfaction; identify the personal characteristics (locus of control) that influenced the professional motivation of the nurses; to correlate the motivational locus of control of the nurses in relation to the job satisfaction level. The questionnaire used as a tool to collect the data, highlighted the following conclusions: the majority of the participants are female within an age group between the twenty and thirty years old; the satisfaction with the co-workers is, among the five dimensions considered, the one that leads to a greater satisfaction; the personal trait (locus of control) that characterizes most of the nurses in this study is namely Internality; only one positive correlation is found considering the 5 dimensions - the co-workers / nature of the work. Note that: satisfaction with co-workers does not depend on gender, reliance on training does exist and the locus of control is independent of marital status and number of working hours.

Date of Award	2010
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	OSCAR CONCEIÇÃO DE SOUSA (Supervisor)