PROFESSIONAL SATISFACTION: A STUDY WITH REHABILITATION NURSES

Abstract

The goal of this study was to analyze the professional satisfaction of rehabilitation nurses, as well as to verify whether the practice of specialized care or the practice of general care influences your professional satisfaction. The study involved 306 rehabilitation nurses and their professional satisfaction was evaluated through their responses to the “Satisfaction in Nurses’ Work Scale”. We used an analytics transverse methodology. For statistical evaluation, we used factorial analysis, Spearman’s correlation coefficient and parametric test t-student for independent samples. Our results show that the rehabilitation nurses are slightly dissatisfied. We found that Nurses who practice general care are more dissatisfied than those who practice specialty care.

Keywords

• job satisfaction
• validation studies
• rehabilitation nursing