Investigating the relationship between factors affecting workplace violence and nursing staff job satisfaction at Alexandria Fever Hospital (AFH)
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
Workplace violence is the largest observable facts involving the health care settings and presents as big challenges to hospital authority. Literature indicates that nurses are a major group of health care providers need to give desirable patients care. Moreover, the systematic prevention of workplace violence will be lead to increase job satisfaction, as well as the wellbeing of the patients. Thus the study intended to investigate the relationship between factors affecting workplace violence and nursing staff job satisfaction at Alexandria Fever Hospital (AFH). A research design was chosen for this study is a correlational descriptive. The study was carried out in all inpatients units (n = 16) at Alexandria fever hospital which is affiliated to the Ministry of Health, Egypt. The subjects consisted of an appropriate sample of one hundred and sixty-seven nurses who are working in the above-mentioned settings. Also, meet the inclusion criteria, and obtainable during data collection phase classify into head nurses (n=16) and nurses either professional or technical (n=161). Data gathering was used through a package composed of two developed questionnaires, namely; factors affecting workplace violence questionnaire and factor affecting job satisfaction questionnaire. Data were collected over a three-month period. After collection of data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics. In this study, the result shows that nursing staff perceived a moderate positive significant correlation between overall factors of workplace violence and their job satisfaction factors except for nurses' relationship factor. Also, head nurses reflected a significantly highest perception of overall workplace and job satisfaction factors compared to those professional nurses and technical nurses. The significant relationship was observed between all factors of workplace violence and job satisfaction current and characteristics of socio-demographic in term of working unit. In conclusion, hospital administrators need to improve the working conditions by providing a supportive atmosphere in support of overall the nursing staffs, concerning them in the training and development program to increase their job satisfaction.
Authors and Affiliations
Magda Elwy Nassar, Hala A. Abdou, Soha Moustafa
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