Nursing job satisfaction. Differences of areas in primary health care and intensive care

Abstract

Nursing job satisfaction establishes the quality of the services provided. When determining this in hospital settings as intensive care units and Primary Health Care in the community, through the self-report of 280 nurses with the application of Font Roja questionnaire of 24 items, it is found that 39.6% of the population is between 20 and 30 years old, where the community environment has higher and statistically significant averages (p=0.00) in the interpersonal relationship with their heads and colleagues, perceptions that favor the autonomy of the nursing professional. The hospital environment enjoys greater satisfaction with work, in the same way, it is better satisfied with professional competence. The labor monotony that manifests the scarce variety of work is self-reported with a higher average in the community environment, and affirmed with an OR of 2.36 (p = 0.00), considering it a risk factor for this. To conclude, comparative job satisfaction in two work environments ratifies a reality of the dissatisfaction of interpersonal relationships with colleagues and heads of the hospital environment and monotony as a risk factor in community environments.