Job satisfaction among nurses in Vietnam

• Main Authors: Bui Duong Quang Phuc, 裴楊光福
• Other Authors: Mei-Yao Ho
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9ua772

碩士 === 美和科技大學 === 護理系健康照護碩士班 === 106 === Background: Today, nursing has been recognized as a unique occupation, in line with other medical staff to provide health care services. In Vietnam and other countries around the world, nursing human resources are still unable to meet the health care needs of the society. This shortage of nurses may be due to a variety of causes, in which nursing job satisfaction is one of the important factors that need to be considered seriously in each organization. Objective: The aim of the study was to to investigate the job satisfaction and related factors among nurses in Thu Duc district hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out to answer the research phenomena during July 2017 to May 2018. Two hundred and one of 452 nurses from the Thu Duc District Hospital were randomly chosen and completed interviews with a structured questionnaire, including five sub-scales of job satisfaction. Results: The nurses were mostly female (86.1%), married (67.7%), staff nurse (98%), and 5 to 10 years of experience (58.7%). Most were public service nurse (41.8%), 2 years college of education (59.7%), work in surgical departments accounted at the highest proportion (32.3%). The mean age was 29.6 ± 3.77, distance from home to work was 6.9 ± 6.79 km, night shift per week was 1.5 ± 1.12. There were significant differences among aspects of job satisfaction and gender, marital status, education, type of contract, and working units, as well as the correlation between these aspects of job satisfaction with overall job satisfaction, between the aspects of job satisfaction with night shift, distance from home to work. Conclusion: The job satisfaction of Vietnamese nurses was at medium level. The present study explored the important factors of job satisfaction among the nurses who were employed in Thu Duc district hospital. It also provides a guideline for hospital management to identify the positive and negative factors of job satisfaction among nurses. As a result, management will address negative factors among healthcare policy makers and hospital management to improve nurses’ job satisfaction.