A Study on Job Satisfaction among Nurses in Thoothukudi District, Tamilnadu

Abstract

Job satisfaction among the nurses play great role in any health care organisation to deliver a great quality of services for patients from different communities.  On the other hand, the job satisfaction has direct impact on absenteeism, turnover rate and the quality of the performance. It is a normal phenomenon that every human performs well when they are satisfied in their job and that comes from rewards and benefits received from their organisation. In contrary, low job satisfaction leads to bad impact on their performance. Job satisfaction level affects not only the quality of the tasks done by the nurses but also affects the satisfaction of patients towards any health care organisation. Due to many reasons, job satisfaction among nurses turned to be inconsistent. The present study was designed and carried out to understand the reasons for their job satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The working condition and working environment being perceived by nurses in different ways and that leads to discrepancy in job satisfaction at various circumstances. Though this is an universal concern perception, nurses from both government hospitals and private hospitals of Thoothukudi District that served as the population for this study. In this study, the researcher used a snowball sampling method.