Assessment of Contextual Relationship between Work and Job Satisfaction among Nurses in Emergency Unit in Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

very day, during every shift, emergency nurses improve the lives of patients, while being less satisfied with their work than nurses in other departments. The purpose of the current study was to ascertain how emergency nurses' job satisfaction and work surroundings relate to one another in Punjab. Nurses working in the emergency Unit in the Jinnah Hospital, Lahore were included in the convenient sample of 104 nurses. Interviews were used to collect the data, which was then analyzed using both inferential and descriptive statistical techniques. Correlation (r=0.328; p=0.001) between the nurses' job satisfaction level and their work environment. A poor work environment (lower mean scores) is linked to dissatisfaction with employment, whereas a good work environment (higher mean scores) is linked to content with jobs (higher mean scores). The work environment and the job satisfaction levels of nurses who staff emergency rooms were shown to be significantly correlated.