Department of Hospital Administration, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar (J&K), India- 190011
Online published on 22 January, 2015.
The issue of job satisfaction among resident doctors and nurses can never be ignored because of their significant role in maintaining the basic purpose of the hospitals and health care delivery system. Knowing the level of satisfaction with their job facets is important in forming strategies for retaining them in an organization. Based on this assumption, the focus of this study was to assess the level of job satisfaction among resident doctors and nurses.
A cross sectional study was for assessing level of job satisfaction of resident doctors and nurses was conducted at Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Srinagar (J&K) administering a pre-structured questionnaire by simple random sampling methodology.
The level Job satisfaction among resident doctors (38.8%) was lower than that of nurses (68.1%). Most of the resident doctors and nurses were satisfied with interpersonal relationship with colleagues, patients, seniors and subordinates. Few resident doctors were satisfied with their salary (6.5%), workload (9.1%), and number of working hours (9.5%) whereas majority of nurses were satisfied with their salaries (100%), and working hours (53.9%).
The level of job satisfaction among resident doctors and nurses in present study was 38.8% and 68.1% respectively. Majority (61%) of resident doctors have low level of job satisfaction indicating urgency of human resource management strategies to improve their contentment to contain brain drain.
Job satisfaction, nurses, resident doctors, cross-sectional study
