Good nurse-nurse collaboration implies high job satisfaction: A structural equation modelling approach

To explore the relationship between nurse-nurse collaboration and job satisfaction among hospital nurses and to test and refine a model explaining this relationship.

A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional survey.

Registered nurses (N = 406, female 88%) in one university hospital in Finland and one in Norway completed a self-administered questionnaire in 2015. Structural equation modelling analysis was used to analyse the relationships between collaboration and job satisfaction subscales.

The constructed SEM model fit the data well (RMSEA = 0.05, CFI = 0.985, χ² p-value > 0.1). The model strongly supported the hypothesized covariance between nurse-nurse collaboration and job satisfaction, while significant and positive relationships were observed between most of the subscales. The results suggest that there is a strong association between nurse-nurse collaboration and job satisfaction such that nurses are more satisfied when there is good collaboration and vice versa.