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Job satisfaction and related factors of nurses in university hospitals: Focusing on collaborative competency factors
Tomoko Majima1, Takeshi Yamamoto2, Ikuko Sakai1
1Graduate School of Nursing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Aim:
This study aimed to clarify the association between nurses' job satisfaction, interprofessional collaborative competency and other related factors in university hospitals in Japan.
Background:
Enhancing a team's function in the university hospital setting requires strengthening each professional's competency: high-level professional competency leads to high job satisfaction.
Methods:
In 2014, self-administered questionnaires were sent to all nurses working at two university hospitals in Japan. A multivariate analysis of variance was conducted to evaluate the relationship between job satisfaction as the response variable and interprofessional collaborative competency and other variables as the independent variables.
Results:
Data from 913 nurses were used in the present analysis (response rate: 60.4%). Two factors from the Chiba Interprofessional Competency Scale 29 (factor 1: attitudes and beliefs as a professional; factor 5: attitudes and behaviours that improve team cohesion) and opportunities for information exchange with other professionals outside the hospital had significant relationships with job satisfaction.
Conclusion:
Strengthening interprofessional collaborative competency and increasing opportunities for information exchange with professionals outside the hospital would improve nurses' job satisfaction in university hospitals.
Implications For Nursing Management:
Interprofessional collaborative competency and opportunities for information exchange with other professionals are worth the attention of nursing administrators.
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